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THE Traditional Games Of England, Scotland, and Ireland
PREFACE
LIST OF AUTHORITIES ADDENDUM TO VOL. I.
LIST OF GAMES
ADDENDA
ANALYSIS OF “MEMOIR”
CHILDREN’S GAMES
Oats and Beans and Barley
Obadiah
Odd or Even
Odd-man
Old Dame
Old Roger is Dead
Old Soldier
Oliver, Oliver, follow the King!
One Catch-all
Oranges and Lemons
’Otmillo
Over Clover
Paddy from Home
Paip
Pallall
Pally Ully
Pat-ball
Pay-swad
Pednameny
Peesie Weet
Peg and Stick
Peg-fiched
Peggy Nut
Peg-in-the-Ring
Peg-top
Penny Cast
Penny Hop
Penny Prick
Penny Stanes
Phœbe
Pick and Hotch
Pi-cow
Pigeon Walk
Pig-ring
Pillie-Winkie
Pinch
Pinny Show
Pins
Pirley Pease-weep
Pitch
Pitch and Hustle
Pitch and Toss
Pit-counter
Pits
Pize Ball
Plum Pudding
Plum Pudding and Roast Beef
Pointing out a Point
Poncake
Poor and Rich
Poor Mary sits a-weeping
Poor Widow
Pop Goes the Weasel
Pop-the-Bonnet
Poppet-Show
Port the Helm
Pots, or Potts
Pray, Pretty Miss
Pretty Little Girl of Mine
Pretty Miss Pink
Prick at the Loop
Prickey Sockey
Prickie and Jockie
Priest-Cat (1)
Priest-Cat (2)
Priest of the Parish
Prisoner’s Base or Bars
Puff-the-Dart
Pun o’ mair Weight
Punch Bowl
Purposes
Push in the Wash Tub
Push-pin, or Put-pin
Push the Business On
Puss in the Corner
Pussy’s Ground
Pyramid
Quaker
Quaker’s Wedding
Queen Anne
Queen Mary
Queen of Sheba
Ragman
Rag-stag
Rakes and Roans
Rakkeps
Range the Bus
Rax, or Raxie-boxie, King of Scotland
Relievo
Religious Church
Rigs
Ring
Ring a Ring o’ Roses
Ring by Ring
Ringie, Ringie, Red Belt
Ring-me-rary
Ring-taw
Rin-im-o’er
Robbing the Parson’s Hen-Roost
Rockety Row
Roll up Tobacco
Roly-poly
Ronin the Bee
Rosy Apple, Lemon and Pear
Roundabout, or Cheshire Round
Round and Round the Village
Round and Round went the Gallant Ship
Round Tag
Rounders
Rounds
Row-chow-Tobacco
Rowland-Ho
Rumps
Rusty
Sacks
Saddle the Nag
Saggy
Sailor Lad
Sally go Round the Moon
Sally Water
Sally Sober
Salmon Fishers
Salt Eel
Save All
Say Girl
Scat
Scop-peril, or Scoperel
Scotch-hoppers
Scots and English
Scratch Cradle
Scrush
Scurran-Meggy
See-Saw
See-Sim
Shame Reel, or Shamit Dance
She Said, and She Said
Shepherd and Sheep
Shepherds
Shinney, or Shinty, or Shinnops
Ship
Ship Sail
Shiver the Goose
Shoeing the Auld Mare
Shue-Gled-Wylie
Shuttlefeather
Shuvvy-Hawle
Silly Old Man
Skin the Goatie
Skipping
Skyte the Bob
Smuggle the Gig
Snail Creep
Snapping Tongs
Snatch Apple
Snatch Hood
Soldier
Solomon
Sort’em-billyort’em
Sow-in-the-Kirk
Span Counter
Spang and Purley
Spangie
Spannims
Spawnie
Spinny-Wye
Splints
Spurn point
Spy-arm
Stacks
Stag
Stagging
Steal the Pigs
Stealy Clothes
Steik and Hide
Sticky-stack
Sticky Toffey
Stiff Police
Stik-n Snael (Stick and Snell)
Stocks
Stones
Stool-ball
Strik a Licht
Stroke
Stroke Bias
Sun and Moon
Sunday Night
Sun Shines
Sweer Tree
Swinging
Tait
Teesty-Tosty
Teter-cum-Tawter
Tee-to-tum.
Thimble Ring
Thing done
Thread the Needle
Three Days’ Holidays
Three Dukes
Three Flowers
Three Holes
Three Jolly Welshmen
Three Knights from Spain
Three Little Ships
Three Old Bachelors
Three Sailors
Through the Needle Eye, Boys
Thun’er Spell
Tick
Tickle me Quickly
Ticky Touchwood.
Tig.
Time.
Tip it.
Tip-Cat.
Tip-tap-toe.
Tiring Irons.
Tisty Tosty
Titter-totter
Tit-tat-toe.
Tods and Lambs
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
Tops
The Totum, or Tee-to-tum
Touch
Tower of London
Town Lovers
Trades
Trap, Bat, and Ball
Tray-Trip
Tres-acre
Tribet
Trippit and Coit
Trip and Go
Trip-trout
Troap
Troco, Trucks
Troule-in-Madame
Trounce-Hole
Troy Town
Truncher
Trunket
Truss
Tuilyie-wap
Turn, Cheeses, Turn
Turn Spit Jack
Turn the Ship
Turn the Trencher, or, My Lady’s Toilet
Turvey
Tutt-ball
Twelve Days of Christmas
Twelve Holes
Uncle John is Ill in Bed
Up the Streets
Wadds and the Wears (1)
Wadds and the Wears (2)
Waggles
Wallflowers
Warney
Way-Zaltin
We are the Rovers
Weary
Weave the Diaper
Weigh the Butter
When I was a Young Girl
Whiddy
Whigmeleerie
Whip
Whishin Dance
Who goes round my Stone Wall
Widow
Wiggle-Waggle
Wild Boar
Wild Birds
Willie, Willie Wastell
Wind up the Bush Faggot
Wind, The
Wink-egg
Witch, The
Witte-Witte-Way
Wolf
Wolf and the Lamb, The
Would you know how doth the Peasant
ADDENDA
A’ the Birdies.
All the Boys.
American Post.
As I was Walking.
Auld Grannie.
Ball.
Bannockburn.
Black Doggie.
Bonnet Ridgie.
Button, The.
Canlie.
Carry my Lady to London.
Cat and Dog Hole.
Catch the Salmond.
Chicken come Clock.
Chippings, or Cheapings.
Chucks.
Churning.
Codham, or Cobhams.
Colley Ball.
Dan’l my Man.
Deil amo’ the Dishes, The.
Dig for Silver.
Dilsee Dollsie Dee.
Doagan.
Down in Yonder Meadow.
Draw a Pail of Water.
Drop Handkerchief.
Dumb Crambo.
Dump.
Eendy, Beendy.
Farmer’s Den, The.
Fire on the Mountains.
Fool, Fool, come to School.
French Jackie,
Galloping.
Gallant Ship.
Galley, Galley Ship.
Glasgow Ships.
Granny’s Needle.
Green Gravel.
Green Grass.
Green Grass.
Heap the Cairn.
Hear all! Let me at her.
Hen and Chickens.
High Windows.
Hot Cockles.
Hulla-balloo-ballee.
Isabella.
Jenny Jones.
Jockie Rover.
Jolly Lads, Bold.
Jolly Miller.
Keys of Heaven.
Kick the Block.
Lady of the Land.
Leap-Frog.
London Bridge.
Magician.
Mannie on the Pavement.
Merry-ma-Tansa.
Milking Pails.
My Delight’s in Tansies.
Namer and Guesser.
Needle Cases.
Nuts in May.
Odd Man.
Old Cranny Crow.
Old Johanny Hairy, Crap in!
Paper of Pins.
Pickie.
Poor Widow.
Rashes.
Queen Anne.
Sally Water.
Shuffle the Brogue.
Soldiers, Soldiers.
Three Dukes.
Three Knights from Spain.
Tug-of-War Game.
We are the Rovers.
When I was a Young Girl.
MEMOIR ON THE STUDY OF CHILDREN’S GAMES
MARRIAGE GAMES.
COURTSHIP AND LOVEMAKING GAMES.
FORTRESS GAMES.
FUNERAL GAMES.
HARVEST GAMES.
TRADE GAMES.
GHOST GAMES.
WELL WORSHIP GAME.
RUSH-BEARING GAME.
TREE WORSHIP GAME.
WINDING UP GAMES.
TABU GAME.
DIVINATION GAMES.
VICTIMISING OR PENALTY GAMES.
(Forms of Torture.)
CHARM GAMES.
EFFIGY GAME.
IMITATION OF SPORT GAMES.
IMITATION OF SPORTS (WITH ANIMAL) GAMES.
WEIGHING GAMES.
WITCH OR CHILD STEALING GAMES.
ANIMAL CONTEST GAMES.
FISHING GAME.
CHURNING GAME.
CONUNDRUM GAMES.
GUESSING GAMES.
CONTEST GAMES.
To take Prisoners.
Prisoners and Possession of Ground.
Catching and Touching for “he” or “it.”
Tug of War.
DANCE GAMES.
(With words and singing.)
DANCE AND SEE-SAW GAMES.
HIDE AND SEEK GAMES.
(1.) Persons—
(2). Objects—
LEAP-FROG AND HOPPING GAMES.
CARRYING GAMES.
BLINDFOLD GAMES.
FOLLOW MY LEADER GAMES.
FORFEIT GAMES.
BALL, HAND.
BALL, FOOT.
BALL GAMES.
(With bats and sticks played by rival parties.)
GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE.
Aim—Throwing sticks or stones to hit particular object.
Buttons.
Chance, or Gambling.
Cherry Stones.
Eggs.
Marbles.
Nuts on string.
On Diagram or Plan.
Pence.
Pins.
Shuttlecock.
Stones and Dice.
Tops.
With Fingers and String.
Games Played in Line Form (with singing and action).
Circle Form (singing and action subdivided into three methods).
Individual Form (dialogue game).
Arch Form.
Winding Up, Or Serpent’s Coil Form.
DRAMATIC GAMES.
(1) Singing (containing words, tune, action).
(2) Dialogue and Action (no singing).
Transcriber’s notes:
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