This rhyme is repeated when it is decided to begin any game, as a general call to the players. The above writer says it occurs in a very ancient MS., but does not give any reference to it. Halliwell quotes the four first lines, the first line reading “Boys and girls,” instead of “Boys, boys,” from a curious ballad written about the year 1720, formerly in the possession of Mr. Crofton Croker (_Nursery Rhymes_). Chambers also gives this rhyme (_Popular Rhymes_, p. 152). Branks A game formerly common at fairs, called also “Hit my Legs and miss my Pegs.”—Dickinson’s _Cumberland Glossary_. Bridgeboard [Illustration] A game at marbles. The boys have a board a foot long, four inches in depth, and an inch (or so) thick, with squares as in the diagram; any number of holes at the ground edge, numbered irregularly. The board is placed firmly on the ground, and each player bowls at it. He wins the number of marbles denoted by the figure above the opening through which his marble passes. If he misses a hole, his marble is lost to the owner of the Bridgeboard.—Earls Heaton (Herbert Hardy). [The owner or keeper of the Bridgeboard presumably pays those boys who succeed in winning marbles.] See “Nine Holes.” Broken-down Tradesmen A boys’ game, undescribed.—Patterson’s _Antrim and Down Glossary_. Brother Ebenezer Ebenezer is sent out of the room, and the remainder choose one of themselves. Two children act in concert, it being understood that the last person speaking when Ebenezer goes out of the room is the person to be chosen. The medium left in the room causes the others to think of this person without letting them know that they are not choosing of their own free will. The medium then says, “Brother Ebenezer, come in,” and asks him in succession, “Was it William, or Jane,” &c., mentioning several names before saying the right one, Ebenezer saying “No!” to all until the one is mentioned who last spoke.—Bitterne, Hants (Mrs. Byford). Bubble-hole A child’s game, undescribed.—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. Bubble-justice The name of a game probably the same as “Nine Holes.”—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. Buck, Buck A boy stoops so that his arms rest on a table; another boy sits on him as he would on a horse. He then holds up (say) three fingers, and says— Buck, buck, how many horns do I hold up? The stooping boy guesses, and if he says a wrong number the other says— [Two] you say and three there be; Buck, buck, how many horns do I hold up? When the stooping boy guesses rightly the other says— [Four] you say and [four] there be; Buck, buck, rise up. The boy then gets off and stoops for the other one to mount, and the game is played again.—London (J. P. Emslie). Similar action accompanies the following rhyme:— Inkum, jinkum, Jeremy buck, Yamdy horns do au cock up? Two thà sès, and three there is, Au’ll lea’n thee to la’ke at Inkum. —Almondbury (Easther’s _Glossary_).