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I. Beans and butter, Come home to supper, 'Tis all ready done.
—Hampshire (Miss Mendham).
II. Little pigs come to supper,
Hot boiled beans and ready butter.
—Northall's Folk. Rhymes, p. 409.
III. Hot beans and butter!
Please to come to supper!
—Much Wenlock (Shropshire Folklore, p. 525).
IV. Hot boiled beans, and very good butter, Ladies and gentlemen, come to supper.
—London (A. B. Gomme).
V. Vesey vasey vum,
Buck aboo has come !
Find it if you can and take it home,
Vesey vasey vum.
—Newlyn West, near Penzance (Folk-lore Journal, v. 49).
One child hides an article, while those who are to search for it go in another room (or out of the way somewhere). When it is hidden, they are called to find it by one of the above rhymes being sung or said. The searchers are enabled more readily to find the hidden article by being told " hot," " very hot," " scorching," "burning," or "cold," "very cold," and " freezing," when near to or far from the hidden article. Sometimes several may-agree to hide the article, and only one to be the finder. In the Penzance game one child is blindfolded, other children hide something, then shout the words. Search is then made for the hidden object: when found, the finder in his turn is blindfolded. There appears to be some mistake in the description of this game.
Hinch-Pinch
The name of an old Christmas game mentioned in Declaration of Popish Impostures, 1603. |
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