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326 LANG LARENCE |
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accident, the penalty of carrying a capturer to the goal is incurred and always enforced. In West Somerset the pursuing boys after starting were in the habit of crying out the word "Brewerre" or "Brewarre;" noise appearing to be quite as essential to the game as speed.—Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries; i. 186 (1888).
Another correspondent to the same periodical (i. 204) says that an almost identical game was played at the King's School, Sherborne, some fifty years ago. It was called u King-sealing," and the pursuing boy was obliged by the rules to retain his hold of the boy seized until he had uttered—
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. You are one of the king-sealer's men.
If the latter succeeded in breaking away before the couplet was finished, the capture was incomplete.
The second game described is almost identical with u King Caesar," played at Barnes.
About twenty years ago the game was common in some parts of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, where it was sometimes called " Chevy Chase."—Folk-lore Journal, vii. 233.
See "Chickidy Hand," " Hunt the Staigie," "King Oesar," "Whiddy."
Lang Larence
That is, " Long Lawrence," an instrument marked with signs, a sort of teetotum. A " Long Lawrence " is about three inches long, something like a short ruler with eight sides; occasionally they have but four. On one side are ten x's, or crosses, forming a kind of lattice-work; on the next, to the left, three double cuts, or strokes, passing straight across in the direction of the breadth ; on the third, a zig-zag of three strokes one way, and two or three the other, forming a W, with an additional stroke or a triple V; on the fourth, three single bars, one at each end and one in the middle, as in No. 2, where they are doubled; then the four devices are repeated in the same order. The game, formerly popular at Christmas, can be played by any number of persons. Each has a bank of pins or other small matters. A pool is formed; then in turn each rolls the |
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