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BLOCK, HAIMMER, &c—BOB CHERRY |
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Block, Haimmer (Hammer), and Nail
This is a boys' game, and requires seven players. One boy, the Block, goes down on all fours; another, the Nail, does the same behind the Block, with his head close to his a posteriori part. A third boy, the Hammer, lies down on his back behind the two. Of the remaining four boys one stations himself at each leg and one at each arm of the Hammer, and he is thus lifted. He is swung backwards and forwards three times in this position by the four, who keep repeating " Once, twice, thrice." When the word " Thrice" is repeated, the a posteriori part of the Hammer is knocked against the same part of the Nail. Any number of knocks may be given, according to the humour of the players.—Keith (Rev. W. Gregor).
A fellow lies on all fours—this is the Block; one steadies him before—this is the Study; a third is made a Hammer of, and swung by boys against the Block (Mactaggart's Gallovidian Encyclopedia). Patterson (Antrim and Down Glossary) mentions a game, u Hammer, Block, and Bible," which is probably the same game.
Blow-point
Strutt considers this to have been a children's game, played by blowing an arrow through a trunk at certain numbers by way of lottery (Sports, p. 403). Nares says the game was blowing small pins or points against each other, and probably not unlike " Push-pin." Marmion in his Antiquary, 164.1, says: " I have heard of a nobleman that has been drunk with a tinker, and of a magnifico that has played at blow-point." In the Comedy of Lingua, 1607, act iii., sc. 2, Anamnestes introduces Memory as telling ° how he played at blowe-point with Jupiter when he was in his side-coats." References to this game are also made in Apollo Shroving, 1627, p. 49; and see Hawkins' English Drama, iii. 243.
See " Dust-Point."
Bob Cherry
A children's game, consisting in jumping at cherries above their heads and trying to catch them with their mouths (H alii well's Dictionary). It is alluded to in Herrick's |
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