Homespun Vol 9 May 1938 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Homespun, Vol. 4: May 1929 The following folk-lore articles are based on material recently collected by the pupils of four sophomore English classes in Greensboro High School. Although they started out to find some of the singing games of the children of North Carolina, they also discovered and brought counting-out rhymes, folk-songs, folk-sayings, folk-tales, riddles, superstitions, and ballads. The words for the singing games they drew from their own experience, from the observation of children at play, and from the recollections of Older people. Workingmen on the job, negroes anywhere, and uneducated white people proved valuable sources of this kind of information. One boy submitted for one day's lesson a collection of twenty folk-songs. One girl brought seventeen negro spirituals told her by a colored woman. In one day eighteen different versions of that simplest of singing games, Ring Around the Roses, were reported. The case with which such a collection is made is evidence of the unexploited richness of the folk-literature of North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.