The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.Gomme, Alice Bertha
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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.
Gomme, Alice Bertha
Folklore -- Great Britain; Games -- Great Britain
In Stead’s _Holderness Glossary_, this is described as a boys’ or girls’
game, in which the pavement is chalked with numbered crossed lines, and
a pebble or piece of crockery is propelled onward by the foot, the
performer hopping on one leg, the number reached on the chalk-line being
scored to him or her. At Whitby it is called “Pally-ully,” and played
with rounded pieces of pot the size of a penny. Divisions are chalked on
the pavement, and the “pally-ullies” are impelled within the lines by a
hop on one leg, and a side shuffle with the same foot (_Whitby
Glossary_). It is sometimes called “Tray-Trip.” Atkinson describes the
figure as oblong, with many angular compartments (_Cleveland Glossary_).
Jamieson defines “Beds” as “Hop-scotch,” a game denominated from the
form, sometimes by strangers called squares. In Aberdeen the spaces
marked out are sometimes circular.
Mrs. Lincoln sends a diagram of the game from Dublin (fig. 6). Addy
(_Sheffield Glossary_) under the name of “Hop-score” says it is a game
in which certain squares are drawn or _scored_ on the ground. The piece
of stone which is pushed with the foot is called the “scotch.” Elworthy
(_West Somerset Words_) says a piece of tile is kicked over lines and
into squares marked on the ground. It is called “Hickety-Hackety,” also
“Huckety.” Cope (_Hampshire Glossary_) says it is played in Hants. Moor
(_Suffolk Words and Phrases_) describes this game under the name of
“Scotch-hob,” by hopping and kicking a bit of tile from bed to bed of a
diagram which he gives (fig. 5, here printed). Brockett (_North Country
Words_) calls it “Beds.” Barnes (_Dorset Glossary_) only says “hopping
over a parallelogram of scotches or chalk-lines on the ground.” F. H.
Low, in _Strand Magazine_, ii. 516, says the divisions are respectively
named onesie, twosie, threesie, foursie, and puddings. It is called
“Hop-bed” at Stixwold in Lincolnshire (Miss Peacock), “Hop-score” in
Yorkshire (Halliwell, l.c.), and “Hitchibed” in Cleveland, Yorks.
(_Glossary of Cleveland Words_). Strutt describes it (_Sports_, p. 383);
and Wood’s _Modern Playmate_, p. 32, gives a diagram similar to one seen
on a London pavement by A. B. Gomme (see fig. 7). Mr. Emslie has sent me
figs. 9 and 10, also from London streets. Newell (_Games_, p. 188)
speaks of it as a well-known game in America.
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