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case, upon reaching the goal without dropping it, throw up and catch it as it falls.
In the second plan (fig. 2) the game is :—Throw stone into No. 1. Pick it up. Hop, not touching lines, from No. 1 to No. 4, and "out." Throw stone into No. 2. Do as before. And so successively into Nos. 3 and 4. Next balance stone on shoe, then on the palm of hand, then on the back of hand, then on the head, then on the shoulder, then on the eye (tilt head back to keep it from falling). In each case walk round once with it so balanced and catch at end.
In the third plan (fig. 3) the game is:—Put pebble in No. 1. Pick up. Hop, having one foot in No. 2 and the other in No. 3. Step into No. 4. Hop, having one foot in No. 5 and the other in No. 6. Jump round. Go back as you came. Then with stone on shoe, walk through the figure, kick it up and catch at the close. Place stone on eyelid; walk through the same figure, dropping it off into hand at close. This is called "jumping."
In the fourth plan (fig. 4) the game is :—Throw stone into No. I. Pick it up. Hop from No. I to No. 8, not touching lines. So successively into Nos. 2, 3, 4, &c. Walk into No. I with stone on foot, and out at No. 8. Kick it up and catch it. The same with stone on thumb. Toss it up and catch. Again with stone on your back. Straighten up, let it slide into your hand.
In Stead's Holderness Glossary, this is described as a boys' or girls' game, in which the pavement is chalked with numbered crossed lines, and a pebble or piece of crockery is propelled onward by the foot, the performer hopping on one leg, the number reached on the chalk-line being scored to him or her. At Whitby it is called " Pally-ully," and played with rounded pieces of pot the size of a penny. Divisions are chalked on the pavement, and the " pally-ullies " are impelled within the lines by a hop on one leg, and a side shuffle with the same foot (Whitby Glossary). It is sometimes called "Tray-Trip." Atkinson describes the figure as oblong, with many angular compartments (ClevelandGlossary). Jamieson defines "Beds" as " Hop-scotch," a game denominated from the form, sometimes by strangers called squares. In Aberdeen the spaces
marked out are sometimes circular.
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