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GLIM-GLAM—GOBS |
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We dinna like to see ye, gudeman, Sae thrang about this spot.
We dinna like ye ava, gudeman,
We dinna like ye ava. Are ye gaun to grow a gled, gudeman ? And our necks draw and thraw ? He answers—
Your minnie, burdies, ye maun lae; Ten to my nocket I maun hae; Ten to my e'enshanks, and or I gae lye, In my wame I'll lay twa dizzen o' ye by. The mother of them, as it were, returns— Try't than, try't than, do what ye can, Maybe ye maun toomer sleep the night, gudeman; Try't than, try't than, Gled-wylie frae the heugh, Am no sae saft, Gled-wylie, ye'll fin' me bauld and teugh. After these rhymes are said the chickens cling to the mother all in a string. She fronts the flock, and does all she can to keep the kite from her brood, but often he breaks the row and catches his prey.—Mactaggart's Gallovidian Encyclopedia.
Evidently denominated from the common mode of designating the kite among the vulgar (Jamieson). " The Greedy Gled's seeking ye," is one of the lines of a rhyme used in " Hide and Seek' in Edinburgh. Glead, or Gled, is also a Yorkshire and Cheshire name for a kite. "As hungry as a Glead'; (Glossary, by an Old Inhabitant).—Leigh (Cheshire Glossary).
See " Fox and Goose," " Hen and Chickens," " Hide and Seek."
Glim-glam
The play of "Blind Man's Buff."—Banffshire, Aberdeen (Jamieson).
Gobs
A London name for the game of " Hucklebones." See " Fivestones." |
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