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 game with marbles played by girls (Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian
Encyclopædia_). A writer in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, August 1821, p. 36,
says “Chucks” is played with a bowl and chucks—a species of shells
(_Buccinum lapillus_) found on the sea-shore [“bowl” here probably means
a marble]. Brockett (_North Country Words_) says this game is played by
girls with five sea-shells called chucks, and sometimes with pebbles,
called chuckie-stanes. Jamieson says a number of pebbles are spread on a
flat stone; one of them is tossed up, and a certain number must be
gathered and the falling one caught by the same hand.
See “Checkstones,” “Fivestones.”
Church and Mice
A game played in Fifeshire; said to be the same with the “Sow in the
Kirk.”—Jamieson.
Click
Two Homes opposite each other are selected, and a boy either volunteers
to go Click, or the last one in a race between the Homes does so. The
others then proceed to one of the Homes, and the boy takes up his
position between them. The players then attempt to run between the
Homes, and if the one in the middle holds any of them while he says
“One, two, three, I catch thee; help me catch another,” they have to
stay and help him to collar the rest until only one is left. If this one
succeeds in getting between the Homes three times after all the others
have been caught, he is allowed to choose the one to go Click in the
next game; if he fails, he has to go himself.—Marlborough, Wilts (H. S.
May).
See “Cock.”
Click, Clock, Cluck
A man called Click came west from Ireland,
A man called Click came west from Ireland,
A man called Click came west from Ireland,
Courting my Aunt Judy.
A man called Clock came west from Ireland,
A man called Clock came west from Ireland,
A man called Clock came west from Ireland,
Courting my Aunt Judy.
A man called Cluck came west from Ireland,
A man called Cluck came west from Ireland,
A man called Cluck came west from Ireland,
Courting my Aunt Judy.
—Isle of Man (A. W. Moore).
These verses and the game are now quite forgotten, both in English and
Manx. It was sung by children dancing round in a ring.
Clowt-clowt
“A kinde of playe called clowt-clowt, to beare about, or my hen hath
layd.”—_Nomenclator_, p. 299.
Clubby
A youthful game something like “Doddart.”—Brockett’s _North Country
Words_.
Coal under Candlestick
A Christmas game mentioned in _Declaration of Popish Impostures_, p.
160.
Cob
A game at marbles played by two or three boys bowling a boss marble into
holes made in the ground for the purpose, the number of which is
generally four.—Baker’s _Northamptonshire Glossary_.
Cobbin-match
A school game in which two boys are held by the legs and arms and bumped
against a tree, he who holds out the longest being the victor.—Ross and
Stead’s _Holderness Glossary_.
Cobble
A name for “See-saw.”—Jamieson.
Cobbler’s Hornpipe
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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