The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2): With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. — John Shaqi
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
A play amongst boys, in which, all having joined hands in a line, a boy
at one of the ends stands still, and the rest all wind round him. The
sport especially consists in an attempt to heeze or throw the whole mass
on the ground.—Jamieson.
See “Eller Tree,” “Wind up Jack,” “Wind up the Bush Faggot.”
Bummers
A play of children. “Bummers—a thin piece of wood swung round by a cord”
(_Blackwood’s Magazine_, Aug. 1821, p. 35). Jamieson says the word is
evidently denominated from the booming sound produced.
Bun-hole
A hole is scooped out in the ground with the heel in the shape of a
small dish, and the game consists in throwing a marble as near to this
hole as possible. Sometimes, when several holes are made, the game is
called “Holy.”—Addy’s _Sheffield Glossary_; _Notes and Queries_, xii.
344.
Bunch of Ivy
Played by children in pairs (one kneeling and one standing) in a ring.
The inner child of each pair kneels. The following dialogue begins with
the inner circle asking the first question, which is replied to by the
outer circle.
“What time does the King come home?”
“One o’clock in the afternoon.”
“What has he in his hand?”
“A bunch of ivy.”
The rhyme is repeated for every hour up to six, the outer circle running
round the inner as many times as the number named. The children then
change places and repeat.—Monton, Lancashire (Miss Dendy).
Bung the Bucket
[Music]
—London (J. P. Emslie).
[Illustration]
A number of boys divide themselves into two sides. One side, the
Buckets, stoop down, as for “Leap-frog,” arranging themselves one in
front of the other. The hindmost supports himself against the one in
front of him, and the front one supports himself against a wall (fig.).
They thus make an even and solid row of their backs. The other side, the
Bungs, leap on to the backs of the Buckets, the first one going as far
up the row as possible, the second placing himself close behind the
first, and so on. If they all succeed in getting a secure place, they
cry out twice the two first lines—
Bung the Bucket,
One, two, three.
Off, off, off!
If no breakdown occurs, the Buckets count one in their favour, and the
Bungs repeat the process. When a breakdown occurs the Bungs take the
place of the Buckets.—Barnes, Surrey (A. B. Gomme).
(_b_) Mr. Emslie, to whom I am indebted for the tune to this game, gives
me the words as—
Jump a little nag-tail,
One, two, three.
He says, “I once heard this sung three times, followed by ‘Ha! ha! he!’
to the tune of the last bar.” Mr. W. R. Emslie says the game is known at
Beddgelert as “Horses, Wild Horses,” he believes, but is not quite
certain.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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