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64 CAT AFTER MOUSE-CATCHERS
tine game;' an allusion to a play called 'Cat i' the Hole,' and the English ' Kit-cat.' Spoken when men at law have lost their principal evidence."
See "Cat and Dog," "Cudgel," "Kit-cat."
Cat after Mouse
This game, sometimes called "Threading the Needle," is played by children forming a ring, with their arms extended and hands clasped; one—the Mouse—goes outside the circle and gently pulls the dress of one of the players, who thereupon becomes the Cat, and is bound to follow wherever the Mouse chooses to go—either in or out of the ring—until caught, when he or she takes the place formerly occupied in the ring by the Cat, who in turn becomes Mouse, and the game is recommenced.—Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vi. 214).
(b) Played at Monton, Lancashire (Miss Dendy); Clapham Middle-Class School (Miss Richardson) ; and many other places. It is practically the same game as " Drop Handkerchief," played without words. It is described by Strutt, p. 381, who considers " Kiss-in-the-Ring" is derived from this "Cat and Mouse."
Catchers
One bicken is required in this game, and at this a lad must stand with a bat and ball in hand. He hits the ball away along the sand. Another boy picks it up and asks the striker " How many ?" who replies—
Two a good scat,
Try for the bat. The ball is then thrown to the bicken, and if it does not come within the distance named—two bats—the striker again sends the ball away, when the question is again asked—
Three a good scat,
Try for the bat. And so on until the boy standing out throws the ball in to the required distance.—Old newspaper cutting without date in my possession (A. B. Gomme).
Chacke-Blyndman
Scotch name for "Blindman's Buff."—Jamieson. |
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