The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Children's Games Collected and Described

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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Children's Games Collected and Described

About this book

Every singing game and street game of the three kingdoms, with the words, the tunes and the local variants - hundreds of them, taken down from children before the towns swallowed the playgrounds. Both volumes are here; it remains the fullest record of a vanished childhood. This edition adds a gallery of 27 plates bound with the text, with paintings by Edvard Munch, Conrad Martens and Marianne North, and 33 illustrations restored and coloured.

Information

Publisher
Aeneas Press
Year
2026
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9785501776708
Subtopic
Folklore & Mythology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland
  4. Preface
  5. Children’s Games.
  6. All in the Well
  7. All the Boys in our Town
  8. Allicomgreenzie
  9. Alligoshee
  10. Almonds and Reasons
  11. Angel and Devil
  12. Babbity Bowster
  13. Bad
  14. Baddin
  15. Badger the Bear
  16. Ball
  17. Ball and Bonnets
  18. Ball in the Decker
  19. Ball of Primrose
  20. Bandy-ball
  21. Bandy Cad or Gad
  22. Bandy-hoshoe
  23. Bandy-wicket
  24. Banger
  25. Bar
  26. Barbarie, King of the
  27. Barley-break
  28. Battledore and Shuttlecock
  29. Bedlams or Relievo
  30. Bell-horses
  31. Belly-blind
  32. Bend-leather
  33. Bird-apprentice
  34. Birds, Beasts, and Fishes
  35. Bittle-battle
  36. Bitty-base
  37. Black Man’s Tig
  38. Blind Bell
  39. Blind Man’s Buff
  40. Blind Man’s Stan
  41. Blind Sim
  42. Block, Haimmer (Hammer), and Nail
  43. Blow-point
  44. Bob Cherry
  45. Boggle about the Stacks
  46. Boggle-bush
  47. Bonnety
  48. Booman
  49. Boss-out
  50. Boys and Girls
  51. Branks
  52. Bridgeboard
  53. Broken-down Tradesmen
  54. Brother Ebenezer
  55. Buckerels
  56. Buckey-how
  57. Buk-hid
  58. Bull in the Park
  59. Bulliheisle
  60. Bummers
  61. Bun-hole
  62. Bunch of Ivy
  63. Bung the Bucket
  64. Bunting
  65. Burly Whush
  66. Buttons
  67. Call-the-Guse
  68. Camp
  69. Canlie
  70. Capie-Hole
  71. Carry my Lady to London
  72. Carrying the Queen a Letter
  73. Cashhornie
  74. Castles
  75. Cat and Dog
  76. Cat-Beds
  77. Cat’s Cradle
  78. Cat-gallows
  79. Cat i’ the Hole
  80. Cat after Mouse
  81. Catchers
  82. Chacke-Blyndman
  83. Chance Bone
  84. Change Seats, the King’s Come
  85. Checkstone
  86. Cherry Odds
  87. Cherry-pit
  88. Chickidy Hand
  89. Chinny-mumps
  90. Chock or Chock-hole
  91. Chow
  92. Chuck-farthing
  93. Chuck-hole, Chuck-penny
  94. Chucks
  95. Church and Mice
  96. Click
  97. Click, Clock, Cluck
  98. Cobble
  99. Cobbler’s Hornpipe
  100. Cob-nut
  101. Cock
  102. Cock-battler
  103. Cock-fight
  104. Cock-haw
  105. Cock-stride
  106. Cockertie-hooie
  107. Cockle-bread
  108. Cock-steddling
  109. Codlings
  110. Cogger
  111. Conquerors or Conkers
  112. Contrary, Rules of
  113. Cop-halfpenny
  114. Corsicrown
  115. Cots and Twisses
  116. Crab-sowl, Crab-sow
  117. Crates
  118. Cricket
  119. Crooky
  120. Cross and Pile
  121. Cross-bars
  122. Cross-questions
  123. Cross Tig
  124. Cry Notchil
  125. Cuddy and the Powks
  126. Cudgel
  127. Curcuddie
  128. Cutch-a-Cutchoo
  129. Dab
  130. Dab-an-thricker
  131. Davie-drap
  132. Diamond Ring
  133. Dibbs
  134. Dinah
  135. Dip o’ the Kit
  136. Dish-a-loof
  137. Doddart
  138. Doncaster Cherries
  139. Dools
  140. Down in the Valley
  141. Drop Handkerchief
  142. Dropping the Letter
  143. Duck under the Water
  144. Duck Dance
  145. Duck Friar
  146. Ducks and Drakes
  147. Duckstone
  148. Dumb Crambo
  149. Dumb Motions
  150. Dump
  151. Eller Tree
  152. Ezzeka
  153. Father’s Fiddle
  154. Feed the Dove
  155. Find the Ring
  156. Fire, Air, and Water
  157. Fivestones
  158. Flowers
  159. Follow my Leader
  160. Fool, Fool, come to School
  161. Foot and Over
  162. Football
  163. Forfeits
  164. Fox and Goose (1)
  165. Fox and Geese (2)
  166. Fox in the Fold
  167. Fox in the Hole
  168. French Jackie
  169. French and English
  170. Friar-rush
  171. Frincy-francy
  172. Frog-lope
  173. Frog in the Middle
  174. Gegg
  175. Genteel Lady
  176. Giants
  177. Giddy
  178. Gilty-galty (or gaulty)
  179. Gipsy
  180. Gled-wylie
  181. Green Grow the Leaves (2)
  182. Gully
  183. Hairry my Bossie
  184. Half-Hammer
  185. Han’-and-Hail
  186. Hand in and Hand out
  187. Handy-Croopen
  188. Handy Dandy
  189. Hap the Beds
  190. Hard Buttons
  191. Hare and Hounds
  192. Hats in Holes
  193. Hattie
  194. Hawkey
  195. Headicks and Pinticks
  196. Heads and Tails
  197. Hecklebirnie
  198. Hen and Chicken
  199. Here comes a Lusty Wooer
  200. Here comes One Virgin
  201. Here I sit on a Cold Green Bank
  202. Here stands a Young Man
  203. Here’s a Soldier
  204. Hewley Puley
  205. Hey Wullie Wine
  206. Hickety, Bickety
  207. Hickety-hackety
  208. Hide and Seek (1)
  209. Hinmost o’ Three
  210. Hirtschin Hairy
  211. Hiss and Clap
  212. Hity Tity
  213. Hoatie, Hots
  214. Hockerty Cokerty
  215. Hockey
  216. Hoges
  217. Ho-go
  218. Hoilakes
  219. Holy Bang
  220. Honey Pots
  221. Hood
  222. Hop-score
  223. Hop-scotch
  224. Hop, Step, and Jump
  225. Hornie
  226. Hornie Holes
  227. Horns
  228. Hot Cockles
  229. How many Miles to Babylon
  230. Huckie-buckie down the Brae
  231. Huckle-bones
  232. Hummie
  233. Hundreds
  234. Hunt the Hare
  235. Hunt the Slipper
  236. Hunt the Staigie
  237. Hurling
  238. Hustle Cap
  239. Hynny-pynny
  240. Jack, Jack, the Bread’s a-burning
  241. Jack upon the Mopstick
  242. Jackysteauns
  243. Jauping Paste-eggs
  244. Jenny Mac
  245. Jiddy-cum-jiddy
  246. Jingle-the-bonnet
  247. Joggle along
  248. Johnny Rover
  249. Jolly Hooper
  250. Jolly Rover
  251. Jolly Sailors
  252. Jowls
  253. Keeling the Pot
  254. Keppy Ball
  255. Kibel and Nerspel
  256. King Come-a-lay
  257. King of Cantland
  258. King o’ the Castle
  259. King Plaster Palacey
  260. Kirk the Gussie
  261. Kit-Cat
  262. Kit-Cat-Cannio
  263. Kittlie-cout
  264. Knapsack
  265. Knights
  266. Knocked at the Rapper
  267. Lady on Yonder Hill
  268. Lag
  269. Lammas
  270. Lamploo
  271. Lang Larence
  272. Leap Candle
  273. Leap-frog
  274. Lend Me your Key
  275. Letting the Buck out
  276. Level-coil
  277. Limpy Coley
  278. Little Dog I call you
  279. Lobber
  280. Loggats
  281. Long-duck
  282. Long-Tawl
  283. Long Terrace
  284. Loup the Bullocks
  285. Lug and a Bite
  286. Luggie
  287. Mag
  288. Magic Whistle
  289. Malaga, Malaga Raisins
  290. Marbles
  291. Mary Brown
  292. Mary mixed a Pudding up
  293. Mineral, Animal, and Vegetable
  294. Minister’s Cat
  295. Mollish’s Land
  296. Monday, Tuesday
  297. More Sacks to the Mill
  298. Mother, may I go out to Play?
  299. Mother Mop
  300. Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils over
  301. Mount the Tin
  302. Mulberry Bush
  303. Munshets or Munshits
  304. Musical Chairs
  305. Nacks
  306. Namers and Guessers
  307. Neiveie-nick-nack
  308. Nettles
  309. New Squat
  310. Nine Holes
  311. Nine Men’s Morris
  312. Nip-srat-and-bite
  313. Nitch, Notch, No-Notch
  314. Not
  315. Nur and Spel
  316. Preface
  317. Analysis of “Memoir”
  318. Children’s Games. Oats and Beans and Barley
  319. Obadiah
  320. Odd or Even
  321. Old Soldier
  322. One Catch-All
  323. Paip
  324. Peg and Stick
  325. Peg-Fiched
  326. Peggy Nut
  327. Peg-In-The-Ring
  328. Peg-Top
  329. Penny Cast
  330. Pick and Hotch
  331. Pi-Cow
  332. Pigeon Walk
  333. Pig-Ring
  334. Pillie-Winkie
  335. Pinny Show
  336. Pins
  337. Pitch and Hustle
  338. Pitch and Toss
  339. Pit-Counter
  340. Pits
  341. Pize Ball
  342. Plum Pudding
  343. Plum Pudding and Roast Beef
  344. Pointing Out a Point
  345. Pop-The-Bonnet
  346. Poppet-Show
  347. Port the Helm
  348. Prick at the Loop
  349. Prickey Sockey
  350. Priest-Cat (1)
  351. Priest-Cat (2)
  352. Priest of the Parish
  353. Purposes
  354. Push in the Wash Tub
  355. Push-Pin, or Put-Pin
  356. Puss in the Corner
  357. Pyramid
  358. Quaker
  359. Queen of Sheba
  360. Ragman
  361. Rakes and Roans
  362. Rakkeps
  363. Range the Bus
  364. Rax, or Raxie-Boxie, King of Scotland
  365. Relievo
  366. Ring-Taw
  367. Rin-Im-O’er
  368. Robbing the Parson’s Hen-Roost
  369. Roll Up Tobacco
  370. Ronin the Bee
  371. Roundabout, or Cheshire Round
  372. Round Tag
  373. Rounders
  374. Rusty
  375. Sacks
  376. Saddle the Nag
  377. Salt Eel
  378. Save All
  379. Say Girl
  380. Scat
  381. Scotch-Hoppers
  382. See-Sim
  383. Shame Reel, or Shamit Dance
  384. She Said, and She Said
  385. Shepherd and Sheep
  386. Shepherds
  387. Shinney, or Shinty, or Shinnops
  388. Ship
  389. Ship Sail
  390. Shoeing the Auld Mare
  391. Shue-Gled-Wylie
  392. Shuvvy-Hawle
  393. Skin the Goatie
  394. Skipping
  395. Skyte the Bob
  396. Smuggle the Gig
  397. Snail Creep
  398. Solomon
  399. Sort’em-Billyort’em
  400. Sow-In-The-Kirk
  401. Spang and Purley
  402. Spangie
  403. Spawnie
  404. Spinny-Wye
  405. Spurn Point
  406. Spy-Arm
  407. Stacks
  408. Steal the Pigs
  409. Stik-N Snael (Stick and Snell)
  410. Stocks
  411. Stones
  412. Stool-Ball
  413. Strik a Licht
  414. Stroke
  415. Stroke Bias
  416. Sun and Moon
  417. Swinging
  418. Tait
  419. Teesty-Tosty
  420. Three Days’ Holidays
  421. Three Jolly Welshmen
  422. Through the Needle Eye, Boys
  423. Tig
  424. Time
  425. Tip It
  426. Tip-Cat
  427. Titter-Totter
  428. Tom Tiddler’s Ground
  429. Tops
  430. Trades
  431. Trap, Bat, and Ball
  432. Tres-Acre
  433. Tribet
  434. Trippit and Coit
  435. Troap
  436. Troco, Trucks
  437. Troule-In-Madame
  438. Troy Town
  439. Truncher
  440. Trunket
  441. Truss
  442. Tuilyie-Wap
  443. Turn Spit Jack
  444. Turn the Ship
  445. Turn the Trencher, or, My Lady’s Toilet
  446. Tutt-Ball
  447. Wadds and the Wears (2)
  448. Waggles
  449. Warney
  450. Way-Zaltin
  451. Weigh the Butter
  452. Whigmeleerie
  453. Whip
  454. Wiggle-Waggle
  455. Wild Boar
  456. Wild Birds
  457. Wink-Egg
  458. Witch, the
  459. Wolf and the Lamb, the
  460. Addenda. A’ the Birdies
  461. All the Boys
  462. American Post
  463. Bannockburn
  464. Black Doggie
  465. Bonnet Ridgie
  466. Button, the
  467. Cat and Dog Hole
  468. Chippings, or Cheapings
  469. Codham, or Cobhams
  470. Colley Ball
  471. Deil Amo’ the Dishes, the
  472. Doagan
  473. Dumb Crambo
  474. Dump
  475. Fire on the Mountains
  476. Fool, Fool, Come to School
  477. High Windows
  478. Hot Cockles
  479. Isabella
  480. Jenny Jones
  481. Jockie Rover
  482. Kick the Block
  483. Leap-Frog
  484. Magician
  485. Mannie on the Pavement
  486. Milking Pails
  487. Namer and Guesser
  488. Odd Man
  489. Old Cranny Crow
  490. Pickie
  491. Rashes
  492. Memoir on the Study of Children’s Games
  493. The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Preface
  494. List of Authorities Addendum to Vol. I
  495. List of Games
  496. About the Author

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