The Suffolk name for “Blind Man’s Buff.”—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_; Moor’s _Suffolk Glossary_. Blind Man’s Buff I. Come, shepherd, come, shepherd, and count your sheep. I canna come now, for I’m fast asleep. If you don’t come now they’ll all be gone. What’s in my way? A bottle of hay. Am I over it? —Shrewsbury (Burne’s _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 525). II. How many fingers do I hold up? Four, three, &c. [at random in reply]. How many horses has your father? Three [fixed reply]. What colour? White, red, and grey. Turn you about three times; Catch whom you may! —Deptford (Miss Chase). III. How many horses has your father got in his stables? Three. What colour are they? Red, white, and grey. Then turn about, and twist about, and catch whom you may. —Cornwall (_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 57, 58). IV. Antony Blindman kens ta me Sen I bought butter and cheese o’ thee? I ga’ tha my pot, I ga’ tha my pan, I ga’ tha a’ I hed but a rap ho’penny I gave a poor oald man. —Cumberland (Dickinson’s _Glossary_). (_b_) In the Deptford version one of the players is blindfolded. The one who blindfolds ascertains that the player cannot see by putting the first question. When the players are satisfied that the blindfolding is complete, the dialogue follows, and the blind man is turned round three times. The game is for him to catch one of the players, who is blindfolded in turn if the blind man succeeds in guessing who he is. Players are allowed to pull, pinch, and buffet the blind man. [Illustration] (_c_) This sport is found among the illuminations of an old missal formerly in the possession of John Ives, cited by Strutt in his _Manners and Customs_. The two illustrations are facsimiles from drawings in one of the Bodleian MSS., and they indicate the complete covering of the head, and also the fact that the game was played by adults. Gay says concerning it— As once I play’d at _blindman’s-buff_, it hap’t, _About my eyes the towel thick was wrapt._ _I miss’d the swains, and seiz’d on Blouzelind._ And another reference is quoted by Brand (ii. 398)— Sometyme the one would goe, sometyme the other, Sometymes all thre at once, and sometyme neither; Thus they with him play at boyes blynde-man-bluffe. —_The Newe Metamorphosis_, 1600, MS. Other names for this game are “Belly Mantie,” “Billy Blind,” “Blind Bucky Davy,” “Blind Harie,” “Blind Hob,” “Blind Nerry Mopsey,” “Blind Palmie,” “Blind Sim,” “Buck Hid,” “Chacke Blynd Man,” “Hoodle-cum-blind,” “Hoodman Blind,” “Hooper’s Hide,” “Jockie Blind Man.”