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LEAP CANDLE—LEAP-FROG |
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" Long Lawrence." If No. 1 comes up the player cries " Flush/5 and takes the pool; if No. 2, he puts down two pins; if No. 3, he says " Lave all," and neither takes nor gives; if No. 4, he picks up one. The sides are considered to bear the names, " Flush," " Put doan two," " Lave all," " Sam up one." It has been suggested that the name " Lawrence " may have arisen from the marks scored on the instrument, not unlike the bars of a gridiron, on which the saint perished.—Easthers's Altnond-bury Glossary. See "Teetotum."
Leap Candle
The young girls in and about Oxford have a sport called " Leap Candle," for which they set a candle in the middle of a room in a candlestick, and then draw up their coats into the form of breeches, and dance over the candle back and forth, saying the words—
The taylor of Bicester he has but one eye, He cannot cut a pair of green galagaskins If he were to die. This sport, in ether parts, is called " Dancing the Candle-rush " (Aubrey's Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, p. 45). Halliwell (Rhymes, p. 65) has a rhyme—
Jack be nimble, And Jack be quick, And Jack jump over The candlestick, which may refer to this game. Northall (Folk Rhymes, p. 412) says in Warwickshire a similar game is called "Cock and Breeches."
Leap-frog
One boy stoops down sideways, with his head bent towards his body, as low as possible. This is called " Tucking in your Tuppeny." Another boy takes a flying leap over the " frog," placing his hands on his back to help himself over. He then proceeds to a distance of some four or five yards, and, in his turn, stoops in the same manner as the first boy, as another |
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