--Easther s _Almondbury and Huddersfield Glossary_. Hunt the Hare A game among children, played on the ice as well as in the fields (Brockett s _North Country Words_). Strutt (_Sports_, p. 381) says Hunt the Hare is the same game as Hunt the Fox. In this game one boy is permitted to run out, and having law given to him--that is, being permitted to go to a certain distance from his comrades before they pursue him--their object is to take him, if possible, before he can return home. See Hare and Hounds. Hunt the Slipper [Music] --Lancashire (Mrs. Harley). All the players but one sit on the floor in a circle with their legs crossed (Turkish fashion), one acting as Chief, all pretending to work at making or mending shoes. The other player brings a slipper to the Chief Cobbler, and desires it to be mended, saying-- Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe, Get it done by half-past two.
They can then all hide until the same keeper discovers them again.--Beddgelert (Mrs. Williams). See New Squat. Mouse and the Cobbler One girl stands up and personates a mother, another pretends to be a mouse, and crouches behind a chair in a corner. The mother says to another player-- Go and get your father s shirt. This player goes to the chair to look for the shirt, and is tickled or touched by the one hiding. She rushes back and calls out-- Mother, there s a mouse. Go and get your father s coat. There s a mouse.
Different kinds of marbles are alleys, barios, poppo, stonies. Marrididdles are marbles made by oneself by rolling and baking common clay. By boys these are treated as spurious and are always rejected. In barter, a bary = four stonies; a common white alley = three stonies. Those with pink veins being considered best. Alleys are the most valuable and are always reserved to be used as taws (the marble actually used by the player). They are said to have been formerly made of different coloured alabaster. See also Murray s _New English Dict._ For the different games played with marbles, see Boss Out, Bridgeboard, Bun-hole, Cob, Hogo, Holy Bang, Hundreds, Lag, Long-Tawl, Nine Holes, Ring Taw. Mary Brown I.
In Five-card Cribbage, more than any other game, it is true that a game is never won until it is lost. Take the following example, in which the pone is 56 up, and the dealer has pegged only 5 holes altogether. The separated cards show those laid out for the crib, and the odd card is the starter. [Illustration: Pone;-- 🃗 🂧 🃆 🃔 🂳 🂣 Dealer;-- 🃖 🂶 🂦 🃒 🃓 ] The pone leads a Seven, and afterwards pairs the dealer’s Six, pegging to 58. The dealer pegs 6 for the pair royal, and is told to go. This enables the dealer to make a double pair royal and 31, pegging fourteen holes more. (The last card does not count when a go or 31 is pegged). On the show the pone has only a pair, which puts him to 60, within one of the game hole. The dealer shows 12 in hand and 17 in crib, making him 54 up. In the next deal the player who wanted one could not peg, his adversary securing a fifteen and a go, and showing out with a pair and a fifteen, 61 up and game.
This old English game is evidently the forerunner of Whiskey Poker. It is played with a full pack of fifty-two cards, and the arrangements for the seats, counters, etc., are the same as at Draw Poker. Three to twelve players may form a table. There are two methods of playing Commerce; with and without a widow. We shall take the older form first. _=Without a Widow.=_ The counters have a money value, and each player deposits one in the pool. The dealer then distributes the cards one at a time, face down, until each has three. The players then examine their cards, and each in turn, beginning with the eldest hand, may exchange one card.