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
Northall (_Rhymes_, p. 401) describes a game very similar to this under
“Buck,” in which the rhyme and method of play is the same as in that
game. He continues, “This is closely allied to a game called in
Warwickshire ‘Jack upon the Mopstick.’ But in this there is no guessing.
The leaping party must maintain their position whilst their leader
says—
Jack upon the mopstick,
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Count ’em off again.”
Bunting
Name for “Tip-cat.”—Cole’s _S. W. Lincolnshire_ Glossary.
Burly Whush
A game played at with a ball. The ball is thrown up by one of the
players on a house or wall, who cries on the instant it is thrown to
another to catch or kep it before it falls to the ground. They all run
off but this one to a little distance, and if he fails in kepping it he
bawls out “Burly Whush;” then the party are arrested in their flight,
and must run away no farther. He singles out one of them then, and
throws the ball at him, which often is directed so fair as to strike;
then this one at which the ball has been thrown is he who gives “Burly
Whush” with the ball to any he chooses. If the corner of a house be at
hand, as is mostly the case, and any of the players escape behind it,
they must still show one of their hands past its edge to the Burly
Whush man, who sometimes hits it such a whack with the ball as leaves it
dirling for an hour afterwards.—Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_.
See “Ball,” “Keppy Ball,” “Monday.”
Buttons
Two or more boys take two buttons in their right hands, and try to throw
them both into a small hole in the ground about two yards off. The boy
who succeeds in getting both buttons in begins first next game, and
takes a button as prize. [This seems merely a mild form of
marbles.]—Lincolnshire (Rev. —— Roberts).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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