The Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland
& Ireland
In Dictionary Form - Volume 2
With Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations.
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M Weigh the old woman:' and it ends by the second with " Down to her knees."—Folk-lore Journal, v. 58.
The players turn their backs to each other, and link their arms together behind. One player then bends forward, and lifts the other off his [her] feet. He rises up, and the other bends forward and lifts him up. Thus the two go on bending and rising, and lifting each other alternately, and keep repeating—
Weigh butter, weigh cheese,
Weigh a pun (pound) o' can'le grease.
—Keith (Rev. W. Gregor).
Mr. Northall (English Folk Rhymes ) gives this game with
the words as—
A bag o' malt, a bag o' salt,
Ten tens a hundred.
This game is described as played in the same way in Antrim and Down (Patterson's Glossary'), and also by Jamieson in Roxburgh.
See "Way-Zaltin."
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