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Duffan Ring
Name for " Cat and Mouse" in Cornwall. — Folk-lore Journal, v. 57.
Dumb Crambo
An undescribed game mentioned in Moor's Suffolk Words, p. 238.
Dumb Motions
Two sides are chosen, which stand apart from each other inside the line of their den. One side chooses a trade, and goes to the opposite side imitating working at the trade and giving the initial letters of it. If the opposite side guesses the name of the trade, the players run to their own den, being chased by their opponents. If any of the players are caught they must go to the opposite side. In turn the opposite side chooses a trade, and imitates the actions practised.—Cork, Ireland (Miss Keane).
This is called u An Old Woman from the Wood " in Dorsetshire. The children form themselves into two ranks.
The first rank says :
Here comes an old 'oman from the wood.
The second party answers:
What cans't thee do ?
First Party: Do anythin'.
Second Party : Work away.
This the children proceed to do, some by pretending to sew, some to wash, some to dig, some to knit, without any instruments to do it with. If the opposite side guess what they are doing, they change sides. This game, Miss Summers believes, is very old, and has been played by several generations in the village of Hazelbury Bryan.—Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vii. 230).
See "Trades."
Dump
A boys' amusement in Yorkshire, in vogue about half a century ago, but now believed to be nearly obsolete. It is |
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