ID: 1587
Date: 1900
Title: Reeds and rushes
Gender: Male and Female 
Classification: Game 
Rhyme: 

Rushes and reeds are bending,
Rushes and reeds are bowing,
My mother sits a-mending,
My father goes a-plowing,
In and out and all about,
And curtsey as we go.

(Auckland, 1900 (Sutton-Smith, 1959:24))

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Background Info: A game similar to "In and Out the Windows", involving weaving in and out of a line formation. (Sutton-Smith, 1959:24)

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Keywords: traditional game 
Location: Auckland 
Group size: 0 
Incidence: 1