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CHILDREN'S GAMES.
Accroshay
A cap or small article is placed on the back of a stooping boy by other boys as each in turn jumps over him. The first as he jumps says " Accroshay," the second "Ashotay," the third "Assheflay,"and the last " Lament, lament, Leleeman's (or Leleena's) war." The boy who in jumping knocks off either of the things has to take the place of the stooper.—Cornwall (Folk-lore Journaly v. 58).
See " Leap-frog."
All-hid
"A meere children's pastime" (A Curtaine Lecture, 1637, p. 206). This is no doubt the game of " Hide and Seek," though Cotgrave apparently makes it synonymous with " Hoodman Blind." See Halliwell's Dictionary. It is alluded to in Dekker's Satirornastix, " Our unhansomed-fac'd Poet does play at Bo-peepes with your Grace, and cryes All-hidde, as boyes doe." Tourneur, Rev. Trag., III., v. 82, " A lady can at such Al-hid beguile a wiser man," is quoted in Murray's Dictionary as the first reference.
All a Row
All a row, a bendy bow,
Shoot at a pigeon and kill a crow; Shoot at another and kill his brother ; Shoot again and kill a wren, And that '11 do for gentlemen.
—Northall's English Folk Rhymes; p. 386.
This is a marching game for very little children, who follow
each other in a row.
(b) H alii well gives the first two lines only (Nursery Rhymes,
No. dxv., p. 101), and there is apparently no other record of VOL. I. A |
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