The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol. I)

About this eBook

Author

Gomme, Alice Bertha, 1853-1938

Title

The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Harry Lamé, the Music Team (Anne Celnik, monkeyclogs, Sarah Thomson and others) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Games -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

41727

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41727

Release Date

December 29, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE Traditional Games Of England, Scotland, and Ireland
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.LIST OF AUTHORITIES
4. 4.LIST OF GAMES
5. 5.ERRATA.
6. 6.CHILDREN’S GAMES. — Accroshay — All-hid — All a Row — All in the Well — All the Birds in the Air — All the Boys in our Town — All the Fishes in the Sea — All the Soldiers in the Town — Allicomgreenzie — Alligoshee — Almonds and Reasons — Angel and Devil — Auntieloomie — Babbity Bowster — Bad — Baddin — Badger the Bear — Bag o’ Malt — Ball — Ball and Bonnets — Ball in the Decker — Ball of Primrose — Baloon — Bandy-ball — Bandy Cad or Gad — Bandy-hoshoe — Bandy-wicket — Banger — Bar — Barbarie, King of the — Barley-break — Barnes (Mr.) — Base-ball — Basket — Battledore and Shuttlecock — Bedlams or Relievo — Beds — Bell-horses — Bellie-mantie — Belly-blind — Bend-leather — Betsy Bungay — Bicky — Biddy-base — Biggly — Billet — Billy-base — Bingo — Bird-apprentice — Birds, Beasts, and Fishes — Bittle-battle — Bitty-base — Black Man’s Tig — Black Thorn — Blind Bell — Blind Bucky-Davy — Blind Harie — Blind Hob — Blind Man’s Buff — Blind Man’s Stan — Blind Nerry-Mopsey — Blind Palmie or Pawmie — Blind Sim — Block, Haimmer (Hammer), and Nail — Blow-point — Bob Cherry — Boggle about the Stacks — Boggle-bush — Bonnety — Booman — Boss-out — Boss and Span — Boys and Girls — Branks — Bridgeboard — Broken-down Tradesmen — Brother Ebenezer — Bubble-hole — Bubble-justice — Buck, Buck — Buck i’ t’ Neucks — Buckerels — Buckey-how — Buff — Buk-hid — Bull in the Park — Bulliheisle — Bummers — Bun-hole — Bunch of Ivy — Bung the Bucket — Bunting — Burly Whush — Buttons — Buzz and Bandy — Cache-pole — Caiche — Call-the-Guse — Camp — Canlie — Capie-Hole — Carrick — Carry my Lady to London — Carrying the Queen a Letter — Cashhornie — Castles — Cat and Dog — Cat-Beds — Cat’s Cradle — Cat-gallows — Cat i’ the Hole — Cat after Mouse — Catchers — Chacke-Blyndman — Chance Bone — Change Seats, the King’s Come — Checkstone — Cherry Odds — Cherry-pit — Chicamy — Chickidy Hand — Chinnup — Chinny-mumps — Chock or Chock-hole — Chow — Chuck-farthing — Chuck-hole, Chuck-penny — Chucks — Church and Mice — Click — Click, Clock, Cluck — Clowt-clowt — Clubby — Coal under Candlestick — Cob — Cobbin-match — Cobble — Cobbler’s Hornpipe — Cob-nut — Cock — Cock-battler — Cock-fight — Cock-haw — Cock-stride — Cockertie-hooie — Cockle-bread — Cockly-jock — Cock’s-headling — Cock-steddling — Codlings — Cogger — Cogs — Common — Conkers — Conquerors or Conkers — Contrary, Rules of — Cop-halfpenny — Corsicrown — Cots and Twisses — Course o’ Park — Crab-sowl, Crab-sow — Crates — Cricket — Crooky — Cross and Pile — Cross-bars — Cross-questions — Cross Tig — Cry Notchil — Cuck-ball — Cuckoo — Cuddy and the Powks — Cudgel — Curcuddie — Curly Locks — Currants and Raisins — Cushion Dance — Cutch-a-Cutchoo — Cutters and Trucklers — Dab — Dab-an-thricker — Dab-at-the-hole — Dalies — Davie-drap — Deadily — Diamond Ring — Dibbs — Dinah — Dip o’ the Kit — Dish-a-loof — Doddart — Doncaster Cherries — Dools — Down in the Valley — Drab and Norr — Draw a Pail of Water — Drawing Dun out of the Mire — Drop Handkerchief — Dropping the Letter — Duck under the Water — Duck at the Table — Duck Dance — Duck Friar — Ducks and Drakes — Duckstone — Duffan Ring — Dumb Crambo — Dumb Motions — Dump — Dumps — Dust-point — Eller Tree — Ezzeka — Father’s Fiddle — Feed the Dove — Find the Ring — Fippeny Morrell — Fire, Air, and Water — Fivestones — Flowers — Follow my Gable — Follow my Leader — Fool, Fool, come to School — Foot and Over — Football — Forfeits — Fox — Fox and Goose (1) — Fox and Geese (2) — Fox in the Fold — Fox in the Hole — French Jackie — French and English — French Blindman’s Buff — Friar-rush — Frincy-francy — Frog-lope — Frog in the Middle — Gap — Garden Gate — Gegg — Genteel Lady — Ghost at the Well — Giants — Giddy — Gilty-galty (or gaulty) — Gipsy — Gled-wylie — Glim-glam — Gobs — Green Grass — Green Gravel — Green Grow the Leaves (1) — Green Grow the Leaves (2) — Gully — Hairry my Bossie — Half-Hammer — Han’-and-Hail — Hand in and Hand out — Handy-Croopen — Handy Dandy — Hap the Beds — Hard Buttons — Hare and Hounds — Harie Hutcheon — Hark the Robbers — Hats in Holes — Hattie — Hawkey — Headicks and Pinticks — Heads and Tails — Hecklebirnie — Hen and Chicken — Here comes a Lusty Wooer — Here comes One Virgin — Here I sit on a Cold Green Bank — Here stands a Young Man — Here we go around, around — Here’s a Soldier — Hewley Puley — Hey Wullie Wine — Hickety, Bickety — Hickety-hackety — Hick, Step, and Jump — Hide and Seek (1) — Hide and Seek (2) — Hinch-Pinch — Hinmost o’ Three — Hirtschin Hairy — Hiry-hag — Hiss and Clap — Hitch Jamie; Hitch Jamie, Stride and Loup — Hitchapagy — Hitchy Cock Ho — Hity Tity — Hoatie, Hots — Hob-in-the-Hall — Hockerty Cokerty — Hockey — Hoges — Ho-go — Hoilakes — Holy Bang — Honey Pots — Hood — Hoodle-cum-blind — Hoodman Blind — Hooper’s Hide — Hop-crease — Hop-frog — Hop-score — Hop-scotch — Hop, Step, and Jump — Hornie — Hornie Holes — Horns — Hot Cockles — How many Miles to Babylon — Howly — Huckie-buckie down the Brae — Huckle-bones — Hummie — Hundreds — Hunt the Hare — Hunt the Slipper — Hunt the Staigie — Hunting — Hurling — Hurly-burly — Huss — Hustle Cap — Hynny-pynny — Isabella — Jack’s Alive. — Jack, Jack, the Bread’s a-burning — Jack upon the Mopstick — Jackysteauns — Jauping Paste-eggs — Jenny Jones — Jenny Mac — Jib-Job-Jeremiah — Jiddy-cum-jiddy — Jingle-the-bonnet — Jingo-ring — Jinkie — Jock and Jock’s Man — Jockie Blind-man — Joggle along — Johnny Rover — Jolly Fishermen — Jolly Hooper — Jolly Miller — Jolly Rover — Jolly Sailors — Jowls — Jud — Keeling the Pot — Keppy Ball — Kibel and Nerspel — King by your leave — King Cæsar — King Come-a-lay — King of Cantland — King o’ the Castle — King Plaster Palacey — King William — King’s Chair — Kirk the Gussie — Kiss in the Ring — Kit-Cat — Kit-Cat-Cannio — Kittlie-cout — Knapsack — Knights — Knocked at the Rapper — Knor and Spell — Lab — Lady of the Land — Lady on the Mountain — Lady on Yonder Hill — Lag — Lammas — Lamploo — Lang Larence — Leap Candle — Leap-frog — Leap the Bullock — Leaves are Green — Lend Me your Key — Letting the Buck out — Level-coil — Libbety, Libbety, Libbety-lat — Limpy Coley — Little Dog I call you — Lobber — Loggats — London — London Bridge — Long-duck — Long Tag — Long-Tawl — Long Terrace — Loup the Bullocks — Lubin — Lug and a Bite — Luggie — Luking — Mag — Magic Whistle — Magical Music — Malaga, Malaga Raisins — Marbles — Mary Brown — Mary mixed a Pudding up — Merrils — Merritot, or the Swing — Merry-ma-tansa — Milking Pails — Mineral, Animal, and Vegetable — Minister’s Cat — Mollish’s Land — Monday, Tuesday — Moolie Pudding — More Sacks to the Mill — Mother, may I go out to Play? — Mother Mop — Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils over — Mount the Tin — Mouse and the Cobbler — Muffin Man — Mulberry Bush — Munshets or Munshits — Musical Chairs — Nacks — Namers and Guessers — Neighbour — Neiveie-nick-nack — Nettles — New Squat — Nine Holes — Nine Men’s Morris — Nip-srat-and-bite — Nitch, Notch, No-Notch — Not — Noughts and Crosses — Nur and Spel — Nuts in May
7. 7.Transcriber’s notes:

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