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BLIND BELL—BLIND BUCKY-DAVY |
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(c) Miss Burne's version (Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 521) is practically the same as the Earls Heaton game, and Easther in his Almondbury Glossary gives a version practically like the Sheffield. Mr. Hardy says it is sometimes called "Black-butt," when the opposite side cry "Away we cut." Miss Dendy quotes an old Lancashire rhyme, which curiously refers to the different subjects in the Lancashire game rhyme. It is as follows:—
Little boy, little boy, where were you born ? Way up in Lancashire, under a thorn, Where they sup butter-milk in a ram's horn. Another version is given in Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, vii. 285.
(d) This is a dramatic game, in which the children seem to personate animals, and to depict events belonging to the history of the flock. Miss Burne groups it under her " dramatic games."
Blind Bell
A game formerly common in Berwickshire, in which all the players were hoodwinked except the person who was called the Bell. He carried a bell, which he rung, still endeavouring to keep out of the way of his hoodwinked partners in the game. When he was taken, the person who seized him was released from the bandage, and got possession of the bell, the bandage being transferred to him who was laid hold of.— Jamieson.
(b) In "The Modern Playmate," edited by Rev. J. G.Wood, this game is described under the name of "Jingling." Mr. Wood says there is a rougher game played at country feasts and fairs in which a pig takes the place of the boy with the bell, but he does not give the locality (p. 7). Strutt also describes it (Sports, p. 317).
Blind Bucky-Davy
In Somersetshire the game of " Blind Man's Buff." Also in Cornwall (see Couch's Polperro, p. 173). Pulman says this means "Blind buck and have ye" (Elworthy's Dialect). |
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