ID: 179
Date: 1925 - 1940s
Title: Dusty bluebells
Gender: Male and Female 
Classification: Game 
Rhyme: 

In and out the dusty bluebells,
In and out the dusty bluebells,
In and out the dusty bluebells  
Who will be my master?
Tippity tappity on my shoulder,
Tippity tappity on my shoulder,
Tippity tappity on my shoulder,
You shall be my master.

(Auckland, 1925, NZ ex UK, 1940s-50s)

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Background Info: A circle game where players make arches with arms, through which the leader weaves. Further details in Opie, 1988:366.

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Sutton-Smith, 1959:23-24, reports the game being played in Petone, early 1900, where the player that was winding about the line was blindfolded and led by another player. At the end of the rhyme she kissed the player she faced.

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Location: Auckland 
Group size: 10 
Incidence: 2