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
(_b_) Similar versions are from Earls Heaton (Herbert Hardy), Ireland
(_Folk-lore Journal_, ii. 265), Peacock (_Mauley and Corringham
Glossary_). Addy (_Sheffield Glossary_) gives this game with the
following addition: If a duck falls short of the Duckstone, and the one
whose duck is on the stone sees that he can _wand_ or _span_ with his
hand the distance between the duck thus thrown and the Duckstone, he
shouts out “Wands,” and if he can wand or span the distance he takes his
duck off, and the duck thus thrown is put on. Holland (_Cheshire
Glossary_), Darlington (South Cheshire), Baker (_Northants Glossary_),
and Brogden (_Provincial Words, Lincolnshire_), also give this game.
Elworthy (_West Somerset Words_) calls it “Duck,” and “Ducks off” and
“Cobbs off” in Dorsetshire. In London the boy repeats the words, “Gully,
gully, all round the hole, one duck on,” while he is playing (_Strand
Magazine_, November 1891). Newell (_Games_, p. 188) calls it “Duck on a
Rock.”
Duffan Ring
Name for “Cat and Mouse” in Cornwall.—_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 57.
Dumb Crambo
An undescribed game mentioned in Moor’s _Suffolk Words_, p. 238.
Dumb Motions
Two sides are chosen, which stand apart from each other inside the line
of their den. One side chooses a trade, and goes to the opposite side
imitating working at the trade and giving the initial letters of it. If
the opposite side guesses the name of the trade, the players run to
their own den, being chased by their opponents. If any of the players
are caught they must go to the opposite side. In turn the opposite side
chooses a trade, and imitates the actions practised.—Cork, Ireland (Miss
Keane).
This is called “An Old Woman from the Wood” in Dorsetshire. The children
form themselves into two ranks.
The first rank says:
Here comes an old ’oman from the wood.
The second party answers:
What cans’t thee do?
First Party: Do anythin’.
Second Party: Work away.
This the children proceed to do, some by pretending to sew, some to
wash, some to dig, some to knit, without any instruments to do it with.
If the opposite side guess what they are doing, they change sides. This
game, Miss Summers believes, is very old, and has been played by several
generations in the village of Hazelbury Bryan.—Dorsetshire (_Folk-lore
Journal_, vii. 230).
See “Trades.”
Dump
A boys’ amusement in Yorkshire, in vogue about half a century ago, but
now believed to be nearly obsolete. It is played in this manner. The
lads crowd round and place their fists endways, the one on the other,
till they form a high pile of hands. Then a boy, who has one hand free,
knocks the piled fists off one by one, saying to every boy as he strikes
his fist away, “What’s there, Dump?” He continues this process till he
comes to the last fist, when he exclaims:—
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