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'Don't like that one,' till one was approved. That one was then swung round to the tune given, the words being— An apple for the king and a pear for the queen, And a good jump over the bowling green. At the last bar they swung the child higher and higher, and at the last note they swung it as high as they could. I believe the last note in the music should be G, but it was raised to give effect."
In Scotland the game is called " Hinnie Pigs," and is played as follows. The boys sit down in rows, hands locked beneath their hams. Round comes one of them, the honey merchant, who feels those who are sweet and sour, by lifting them by the arm-pits and giving them three shakes. If they stand these without the hands unlocking below they are then sweet and saleable, fit for being office-bearers of other ploys.— Mactag-gart's Gallovidian Encyclopedia.
In Ross and Stead's Holdcrness Glossary this is described as a girls' game, in which two carry a third as a pot of honey to market. It is mentioned by Addy (Sheffield Glossary) and by Holland (Cheshire Glossary). Mr. Holland adds, " If the hands give way before twenty is reached it is counted a bad honey pot; if not, it is a good one."
In Dublin the seller sings out—
Honey pots, honey pots, all in a row, Twenty-five shillings wherever you go— Who'll buy my honey pots ? —Mrs. Lincoln.
The game is mentioned by a writer in Blackwood's Magazine, August 1821, p. 36, as being played in Edinburgh when he was a boy.
Hood
A game played at Haxey, in the Isle of Axholme, on the 6th of January. The Hood is a piece of sacking, rolled tightly up and well corded, and which weighs about six pounds. This is taken into an open field on the north side of the church, to be contended for by the youths assembled for that purpose. When the Hood is about to be thrown up, the Plough-bullocks or Boggins, as they are called, dressed in scarlet jackets, are |
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