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JACK, JACK, &c— JAUPING PASTE-EGGS 259 |
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miniature to the old tribal custom of carrying the fiery cross to rouse the clans at once suggests the possible origin of it. The detention of the fiery cross through neglect or other impediment was regarded with much dread by the inhabitants of the place in which it should occur. This subject is discussed in Gomme's Primitive Folkmoots, p. 279 et seq.
Jack, Jack, the Bread's a-burning
Jack, Jack, the bread's a-burning,
All to a cinder;
If you don't come and fetch it out
We'll throw it through the winder. These lines are chanted by players that stand thus. One places his back against a wall, tree, &c, grasping another, whose back is toward him, round the waist; the second grasps a third, and so on. The player called Jack walks apart until the conclusion of the lines. Then he goes to the others and pokes at or pats them, saying, " I don't think you're done yet," and walks away again. The chant is repeated, and when he is satisfied that the bread is " done " he endeavours to pull the foremost from the grasp of the others, &c.—Warwickshire (Northall's Folk Rhymes, p. 390). See " Mother Mop."
Jack upon the Mopstick See " Bung the Bucket."
Jackysteauns
A game among school-girls, played with small pebbles, and sometimes with plum or cherry stones (Dickinson's Cumberland Glossary). "A children's game, played with five white pebbles called Jackstones," says Mr. Patterson (Antrim and Down Glossary). The game is called " Jack."
See " Fivestones," " Plucklebones."
Jauping Paste-eggs
A youthful amusement in Newcastle and the neighbourhood at Easter. One boy, holding an egg in his hand, challenges another to give blow for blow. One of the eggs is sure |
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