Sir John Suckling also has given a description of this pastime with allegorical personages, which is quoted by Brand. In Holiday’s play of the _Marriages of the Arts_, 1618, this sport is introduced, and also by Herrick (_Hesperides_, p. 44). Barley-break is several times alluded to in Massinger’s plays: see the _Dramatic Works of Philip Massinger_, 1779, i. 167. “We’ll run at barley-break first, and you shall be in hell” (Dekker’s _The Honest Whore_). “Hee’s at barli-break, and the last couple are now in hell” (Dekker’s _The Virgin Martir_). See Gifford’s _Massinger_, i. 104, edit. 1813. See also Browne’s _Britannia’s Pastorals_, published in 1614, Book I., Song 3, p. 76. Randle Holme mentions this game as prevailing in his day in Lancashire. Harland and Wilkinson believe this game to have left its traces in Yorkshire and Lancashire. A couple link hands and sally forth from _home_, shouting something like Aggery, ag, ag, Ag’s gi’en warning, and trying to tick or touch with the free hand any of the boys running about separately. These latter try to slip behind the couple and throw their weight on the joined hands to separate them without being first touched or ticked; and if they sunder the couple, each of the severed ones has to carry one home on his back. Whoever is touched takes the place of the toucher in the linked couple (_Legends of Lancashire_, p. 138). The modern name of this game is “Prison Bars” (_Ibid._, p. 141). There is also a description of the game in a little tract called _Barley Breake; or, A Warning for Wantons_, 1607. It is mentioned in Wilbraham’s _Cheshire Glossary_ as “an old Cheshire game.” Barnes, in his _Dorsetshire Glossary_, says he has seen it played with one catcher on hands and knees in the small ring (Hell), and the others dancing round the ring crying “Burn the wold witch, you barley breech.” Holland (_Cheshire Glossary_) also mentions it as an old Cheshire game. See “Boggle about the Stacks,” “Scots and English.” Barnes (Mr.) Mr. Barnes is dead and gone, And left his widder, Three poor children in her arms; What will you give her? Where did you come from? —Played about 1850 at Hurstmonceux, Sussex (Miss Chase). This is probably a forfeit game, imperfectly remembered. See “Old Soldier.” Base-ball An undescribed Suffolk game.—Moor’s _Suffolk Words_. See “Rounders.” Basket [Music] —London (A. B. Gomme). In this game the children all follow one who is styled the “mother,” singing: I’ll follow my mother to market, To buy a silver basket. The mother presently turns and catches or pretends to beat them.—Dorsetshire (_Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 231). We’ll follow our mother to market, To buy herself a basket; When she comes home she’ll break our bones, We’ll follow our mother to market. —Hersham, Surrey (_Folk-lore Record_, v. 84). A version familiar to me is the same as above, but ending with For tumbling over cherry stones.