The Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland
& Ireland
In Dictionary Form - Volume 1
With Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations.
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42 BOGGLE ABOUT THE STACKS-BOGGLE-BUSH j |
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Hesperides as " Chop Cherry." Major Lowsley describes the game as taking the end of a cherry-stalk between the teeth, and holding the head perfectly level, trying to get the cherry into the mouth without using the hands or moving the head |
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(Berkshire Glossary). It is also mentioned in Peacock's Manley and Corringham Glossary. Strutt gives a curious illustration of the game in his Sports and Pastimes, which is here reproduced from the original MS. in the British Museum. The Staffordshire St. Clement Day custom (Poole's StaffordÂshire Customs, &c., p. 36) and the northern Hallowe'en custom (Brockett's North-Country Words) probably indicate the origin of this game from an ancient rite.
Boggle about the Stacks
A favourite play among young people in the villages, in which one hunts several others (Brockett's North-Country Words). The game is alluded to in one of the songs given by Ritson (ii. 3), and Jamieson describes it as a Scottish game.
See " Barley-break."
Boggle-bush
The child's play of finding the hidden person in the company. —Robinson's Whitby Glossary. See " Hide and Seek." |
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