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Up with my heels, and down with my head, And this is the way to mould cocklebread.
—Aubrey's Remains, pp. 43, 44.
To make "Barley bread" (in other districts, "Cockley bread") this rhyme is used in West Cornwall:—
Mother has called, mother has said, Make haste home, and make barley bread. Up with your heels, down with your head, That is the way to make barley bread.
—Folk-lore Journal, v. 58.
The Westmoreland version is given by Ellis in his edition of Brand as follows :—
My grandy's seeke,
And like to dee,
And I'll make her
Some cockelty bread, cockelty bread,
And I'll make her
Some cockelty bread.
The term " Cockelty" is still heard among our children
at play. One of them squats on its haunches with the hands
joined beneath the thighs, and being lifted by a couple of others
who have hold by the bowed arms, it is swung backwards and
forwards and bumped on the ground or against the wall, while
continuing the words, "This is the way we make cockelty
bread."—Robinson's Whitby Glossary, p. 40.
The moulding of " Cocklety-bread" is a sport amongst
hoydenish girls not quite extinct. It consists in sitting on
the ground, raising the knees and clasping them with the hand,
and then using an undulatory motion, as if they were kneading
dough.
My granny is sick and now is dead,
And we'll go mould some cocklety bread; Up with the heels and down with the head, And that is the way to make cocklety bread.
—Hunter's MSS. ; Addy's Sheffield Glossary.
(b) The Times of 1847 contains a curious notice of this game. A witness, whose conduct was impugned as light and |
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