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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	COCKERTIE-HOOIE—COCKLE-BREAD
	of the caps (fig. 2). The boy whose cap he first finds has to run about twenty yards under the buffeting of the other boys, the
	blows being directed chiefly to the head. He becomes Cock at the next turn of the game.—Rosehearty, Pitsligo (Rev. W. Gregor). Cockertie-hooie This game consists simply of one boy mounting on the neck of another, putting a leg over each shoulder and down his breast. The boy that carries takes firm hold of the legs of the one on his neck, and sets off at a trot, and runs hither and thither till he becomes tired of his burden. The bigger the one is who carries, the more is in the enjoyment to the one carried.—Keith (Rev. W. Gregor). See "Cock's-headling." Cockle-bread Young wenches have a wanton sport, which they call moulding of Cocklebread; viz. they gett upon a Table-board, and then gather-up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro with their Buttocks as if the[y] were kneading of Dowgh, and say these words, viz.:— My Dame is sick and gonne to bed, And I'le go mowld my cockle-bread. In Oxfordshire the maids, when they have put themselves into the fit posture, say thus:— My granny is sick, and now is dead, And wee'l goe mould some cockle-bread.