(_c_) Mr. Ballantyne writes: “This game was a great favourite in my father’s house. This was a forfeit game, forfeits being called ‘wadds.’” Chambers, _Popular Rhymes_, p. 124, gives a version of this game. It is practically the same as Mr. Ballantyne’s version, with only a few verbal differences. Mactaggart says, “The chief drift of this singular game seemed to be to discover the sweethearts of one another,” and such discoveries are thought valuable, but not so much as they were anciently. In any case, it appears to me that the game is an early one, or, at all events, a reflection of early custom. Hickety, Bickety Hickety, bickety, pease-scone, Where shall this poor Scotchman gang? Will he gang east, or will he gang west, Or will he gang to the craw’s nest? —Chambers (_Popular Rhymes_, p. 122). One boy stands with his eyes bandaged and his hands against a wall, with his head resting on them. Another stands beside him repeating the rhyme, whilst the others come one by one and lay their hands upon his back, or jump upon it. When he has sent them all to different places he turns round and calls, “Hickety, bickety!” till they have all rushed back to the place, the last in returning being obliged to take his place, when the game goes on as before. Chambers adds, “The ‘craw’s nest’ is close beside the eye-bandaged boy, and is therefore an envied position.” Newell, _Games_, p. 165, refers to this game. See “Hot Cockles.” Hickety-hackety The game of Hop-scotch, played with a piece of tile, which has to be kicked by the player with the foot on which he hops over lines into various squares marked on the ground.—Somersetshire (Elworthy’s _Dialect_). See “Hop-scotch.” Hick, Step, and Jump The game of “Hop, step, and jump.”—Somerset (Holloway’s _Dict. of Provincialisms_). See “Half-Hammer.” Hide and Seek (1) A writer in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, August 1821, p. 36, mentions this as a summer game. It was called “Ho, spy!” the words which are called out by those boys who have hidden. He says the watchword of “Hide and seek” was “hidee,” and gives as the rhyme used when playing— Keep in, keep in, wherever you be, The greedy gled’s seeking ye. This rhyme is also given by Chambers (_Popular Rhymes_, p. 122). Halliwell gives the rhyme as— Hitty titty indoors, Hitty titty out, You touch Hitty titty, And Hitty titty will bite you. —_Nursery Rhymes_, p. 213. At Ashford-in-the-Water the words used were— One a bin, two a bin, three a bin, four, Five a bin, six a bin, seven, gie o’er; A bunch of pins, come prick my shins, A loaf brown bread, come knock me down. I’m coming! —_Reliquary_, viii. 57. The words are said by the one who has to find the person hidden.