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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than the Leader, the Leader stoops down.—Earls Heaton,
Yorks. (H. Hardy).
This game is general. Mr. Emslie describes the London version somewhat differently. After all the boys had jumped over the first boy's back, a cry of " Foot it" was raised, and the boy who had given the back placed one of his feet at a right |
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angle to the other, and in this way measured a " foot's length " from the starting-place. All the boys then " overed " his back from the original line, the last one crying " Foot it," and then the measuring ceremony was again gone through, and the game commenced again, and continued in the same manner until one of the boys failed to " over " the back, when he became Back.
Football
The modern game of " Football" is too well known to need description here, and, like " Cricket," it has become no longer a children's game. As to its origin, there are many ball games, such as " Camping," which have been suggested as the original form of " Football." Every school almost had some peculiarity in the method of playing, and Eton, Winchester, Uppingham, and Rugby are well-known examples. It is not a little interesting to note, now that " Football" has settled down into a national game organised by county committees, that one of the |
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