 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1883 - 694 str.
...The following ' ditties ' are repeated by the player going round the ring to make his selection : ' I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I lost it. Some one has picked it up. Not yon, not you (etc.), but YOU ! ' MUCH WENLOCK. ' I lost my... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1886 - 320 str.
...chase. The following ' ditties ' are repeated by the player going round the ring to make his selection : 'I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I lost it. Some one has picked it up. Not you, not you (etc.), but YOU ! ' MUCH WBNLOCK. ' I lost my... | |
 | Alice Bertha Gomme - 1894 - 472 str.
...It isn't you, it isn't you, &c. &c. ; it's you. — Miss Winfield. Wiskit-a-waskit, A green leather basket ; I wrote a letter to my love, And on the way I lost it ; Some of you have picked it up, And put it in your pocket. I have a little dog at home, And... | |
 | Lady Catherine Henrietta Milnes Gaskell - 1905 - 386 str.
...boys dropped handkerchiefs on the shoulders of the girls they liked, and they said in turn — " ' I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I lost it ; Some one has picked it up, Not you, not you, not you.' That they said," said Hals, " when... | |
 | Jessie Hubbell Bancroft - 1909 - 534 str.
...handkerchief, runs around on the outside of the circle, singing the following verse: — Itiskit, Itasket, A green and yellow basket; I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it. Some one of you has picked it up And put it in your pocket ; It isn't you — it isn't you — Singing... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1911 - 352 str.
...instrument struck into a jingling measure with some words which are still believed to have been, " I sent a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it." At about this limit of mental anarchy Father Brown's view was obscured altogether; for the City magnate... | |
 | 1906 - 612 str.
...are chosen ; then they sing "All of us know the muffin man." I TISKIT, I TASKET. I tiskit, I tasket, Green and yellow basket ; I wrote a letter to my love, And on the way I dropped it, I dropped it, I dropped it, And on the way I dropped it Directions — This is a popular form of drop... | |
 | Eugene Manlove Rhodes - 1914 - 258 str.
...industrious to her work, smiling to herself, half-singing, half-humming a foolish and lilty little tune : " A tisket, a tasket — a green and yellow basket ; I wrote a letter to my love and on the road I lost it — I crissed it, I crossed it — I locked it in a casket ; I missed it, I lost it... | |
 | Norman Douglas - 1916 - 180 str.
...try to pull each other across the street. And they have handkerchief games together such as I SENT A LETTER TO MY LOVE (" and on the way I dropped it ", a decent game for boys and girls, also called LOST LETTER ; and if you haven't got a handkerchief, which... | |
 | Alabama. Department of Education - 1920 - 318 str.
...stand in a circle; an odd player carrying a handkerchief runs around outside singing: Itiskit, Itasket, A green and yellow basket; I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it. Some one of you has picked it up And put it in your pocket ; It isn't you — it isn't you — He drops... | |
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A green and yellow basket; I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it. 
