Victorian Children's Games

Lazy Mary'. The players form a ring, one is selected to be Lazy Mary and she goes into the middle of the ring along with another player called the Mother'. Lazy Mary sits down and the mother walks round her singing:- Lazy Mary will you get up, will you get up, will you get up on a cold and frosty morning? Mary replies:- No, mother! I wont get up. Mother:- If I take you to the pictures? Mary:- No mother no. Mother:- If I bring you to your Aunties? Mary:- No mother no. Mother:- If I buy you a fairy bike? Mary (jumping up) Yes, mother! I will get up (clapping hands and singing). Then all the children in the ring shake fingers at Mary and sing:- Lazy Mary you had to get up

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