“To see the sonne you would admire, Goe play at push-pin with his sire.” —_Men’s Miracles_, 1656, p. 15. “Love and myselfe, beleeve me on a day, At childish push-pin for our sport did play.” —Herrick’s _Works_, i. 22. There is an allusion to it under the name of put-pin in Nash’s _Apologie_, 1593— “That can lay down maidens bedds, And that can hold ther sickly heds; That can play at put-pin, Blow poynte and near lin.” Two pins are laid upon a table, and the object of each player is to push his pin across his opponent’s pin.—Addy’s _Sheffield Glossary_. See “Hattie,” “Pop the Bonnet.” Push the Business On I. I hired a horse and borrowed a gig, And all the world shall have a jig; And I’ll do all ’at ever I can To push the business on. To push the business on, To push the business on; And I’ll do all ’at ever I can To push the business on. —North Kelsey, Anderby, and near the Trent, Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock). II. Beeswax and turpentine make the best of plaster, The more you try to pull it off, it’s sure to stick the faster. I’ll buy a horse and hire a gig, And all the world shall have a jig; And you and I’ll do all we can To push the business on, To push the business on; And we’ll do all that ever we can To push the business on. —Brigg, Lincolnshire (Miss Barker, from a Lincolnshire friend). III. I’ll buy a horse and steal a gig, And all the world shall have a jig; And I’ll do all that ever I can To pass the business on. To pass the business on, To pass the business on; And I’ll do all that ever I can To pass the business on. —Wolstanton, North Staffs. (Miss Bush, Schoolmistress) IV. We’ll borrow a horse and steal a gig, And round the world we’ll have a jig; And I’ll do all that ever I can To push the business on. —Earls Heaton (Herbert Hardy). V. I’ll hire a horse and steal a gig, And all the world shall have a jig; And I’ll do all that ever I can To push the business on, To push the business on, to push the business on, And I’ll do all that ever I can to push the business on. —Settle, Yorkshire (Rev. W. S. Sykes).