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
Jenny Mac, Jenny Mac, Jenny Macghie,
Turn your back about to me;
And if you find an ill baubee,
Lift it up and gie’t to me.
Two girls cross their arms behind their backs, and thus taking hold of
each other’s hands, parade along together, by daylight or moonlight,
occasionally turning upon their arms, as indicated in the rhyme.
Another rhyme for this amusement is—
A basket, a basket, a bonny penny basket,
A penny to you, and a penny to me,
Turn about the basket.
—Chambers’s _Popular Rhymes_; p. 123.
See “Basket.”
Jib-Job-Jeremiah
An undescribed Suffolk game.—Moor’s _Suffolk Words_, p. 238.
Jiddy-cum-jiddy
A northern name for “See Saw.”
Jingle-the-bonnet
A game in which two or more put a halfpenny each, or any piece of coin,
into a cap or bonnet. After jingling or shaking them together, they are
thrown on the ground; and he who has most heads when it is his turn to
jingle, gains the stakes which were put into the bonnet.—Jamieson.
Halliwell (_Dictionary_) says this is a northern name for the game of
“Shake Cap,” and Brockett (_North Country Words_) speaks of it as a game
much practised among the young pitmen and keelmen.
Jingo-ring
Here we go by jingo-ring, jingo-ring, jingo-ring,
Here we go by jingo-ring, and round by merry-ma-tansy.
—Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).
Sung to the “Mulberry” or “Ivy bush” tune.
The children form a ring and dance round singing. At the last word they
all fall down.
See “Merry-ma-tansa.”
Jinkie
A game among children, in which they run round a table trying to catch
one whose business is by quick turns to elude them.—Jamieson.
Jock and Jock’s Man
A juvenile sport in which the _bon camarada_ is to repeat all the pranks
which the leader can perform.—Brockett’s _North Country Words_.
See “Follow my Gable,” “Follow my Leader.”
Jockie Blind-man
Scotch name for “Blind Man’s Buff.”—Jamieson.
See “Blind Man’s Buff.”
Joggle along
I. Come all you young men
In your youthful ways,
And sow your wild oats
In your youthful days.
Then you’ll be happy,
Then you’ll be happy,
As you grow old.
For the day’s far spent,
And the night’s coming on,
So give us your arm, and
We’ll joggle along.
—Penzance, Cornwall (Mrs. Mabbott).
II. Come all ye young men, with your wicked ways,
Sow all your wild oats in your youthful days,
That we may live happy, that we may live happy,
That we may live happy when we grow old.
The day is far spent, the night’s coming on,
Give us your arm, and we’ll joggle along,
That we may live happy, &c., &c.
—Cornwall (_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 57).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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