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At these words one lad, who has been hiding behind a tree, runs in to catch one of the chickens. As the rhyme is finished, they all run, and the fox tries to catch one, another player, the old hen, trying to stop him, the chickens all taking hold of her by the tail.
The fox has to keep on his hands and feet, and the old hen has to keep "clocking" on her "hunkers."
Some of the children substitute these words for the latter part of the above :—
The crow's awake, the kite's asleep, It's time for my poor chickens To get a bit of something to eat—
What time is it, old granny ?
—Kiltubbrid, Co. Leitrim (L. L. Duncan).
Mr. Duncan says this game has almost died out, and the people were rather hazy about the words they used to say.
Chippings, or Cheapings. [See "Tops," vol. ii. pp. 229-303.]
A game with peg tops played by two or more boys. A large button, from which the shank has been removed, or a round piece of lead about the size of a penny, is placed on the ground between two agreed goals. The players divide into sides, each side tries to send the button to different goals, the tops are spun in the usual way, and then taken up on the hand while spinning, and allowed to revolve once round the palm of the hand, and then thrown on the ground on the button in such a way that the button is projected some distance along the ground. Then a boy on the opposite side spins his top and tries to hit the button in the opposite direction. This is continued alternately until one or other side succeeds in getting the button to the goal.—London Streets (A. B. Gomme).
Chucks. [Vol. i. p. 69 ; also " Five-stones," pp. 122-129, " Huckle-bones," pp. 239-240.] A rhyme repeated while playing at " Chucks " with five small
stones, lifting one each time.
Sweep the floor, lift a chair, Sweep below it, and lay it down. |
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