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Summer is an invigorating time even for the old man who dare not bend, yet who pokes at his garden with a stick. So to the child it is a time of wild stimulation, when girls, otherwise sedate, cut a length from mother’s clothesline and begin to chant austere little songs to the beat of a turning rope. These jump rope songs are true folk songs..."—(from "Jump Rope Song" by Iris and Alonzo Gibbs)
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The New York Folklore Quarterly was published 1946-1974. Back issues are still available.

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. XIV, No. 4, Winter, 1958
CONTENTS

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President’s Page		   264

Mrs. Gilman and the Erie Canal
Lionel D. Wyld		 265

Folk Art in the New York Subway
Marie-Louise Walter		 268

Obstinate Becky
Beulah E. Lawrence		 271

The Rattlesnake Hunter
Julia Hull Winner		 273

A Salute to Robert Burns
Catharine Walsh Peltz		 276

Tall Feller
Edward Bodin		 284

Mary Chilton of the Mayflower
Charles A. Huguenin		 287

Following the Folklore Trail
Moritz A. Jagendorf		 296

A Mohawk Valley Poem
Marvin A. Rapp		 300

What's in a Name?
Ann Shaw		 305

Delia's Hapless Fate
Olive Woolley Burt		 308

Reader's Query		   310

JUNIOR LORE		    

Jump Rope Songs
Iris and Alonzo Gibbs		 312

Lively, Rich Experiences Ahead
Margaret Mattison Coffin		 317

Books for Younger Readers		   323

DEPARTMENTS		    

Upstate, Downstate
William G. Tyrrell and
B. A. Botkin		 325

The Editor’s Bookshelf
 		 334

Postscript		   339

Contributors		   341


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