(_b_) In Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire the game is played by the children forming a circle and dancing round, singing. The first and third lines are sung three times. Partners are chosen during the singing of the last line. Miss Peacock adds, The rest wanting, as my informant had forgotten the game. In the Sharleston version the children march round two by two, in a double circle, with one child in the centre, singing the verse. At the conclusion, the children who are marching on the inner side of the circle leave their partners and take the place of one in front of them, while the centre child endeavours to get one of the vacant places, the child turned out taking the place of the one in the centre, when the game begins again. In the Earls Heaton version there is the circle of children, with one child in the centre, who chooses a partner after the lines have been sung. (_c_) From this it would seem that while the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire words appear to be the most complete, the action has been preserved best at Sharleston. The acting of this version is the same as that of The Jolly Miller. The third variant is evidently an imitation of the song, John Brown.
They go up to the two that form the gate, and the leader asks the first question, as in version No. 2. The dialogue then proceeds to the end. The two then lift their arms as high as they can, still joined, and the line of players passes through. All at once the two bring their arms down on one and make him (or her) prisoner. The prisoner is asked in a whisper, so as not to disclose the secret name, which of the two is to be chosen. The one so captured takes his (or her) stand behind the one chosen. The same process is gone through till all the players are taken captive, and have stationed themselves behind the one or the other of the two forming the gate. The last one of the line goes through three times. The first time the word breakfast is pronounced; the second time dinner; and the third time supper.
Either of these must be made exclusive of revoke penalties. _=RUBBERS.=_ The rubber is won by the side that first wins four games of ten points each; and the winning side adds 8 points to its score. _=SCORING.=_ The game score should be kept on a whist marker, using the four large keys on one side for single points, and the single large key on the opposite side for five points. The three small keys are used to show how many games of the rubber have been won by that side. [Illustration: TWO GAMES WON, AND 2 POINTS SCORED ON THE THIRD.] The method of using counters for scoring 10-point games has already been described in connection with Whist. In addition to either markers or counters, there must be a sheet of paper to keep the final results of the games. In scoring, the revoke penalty counts first, tricks next, and honours last.
It s all so quick that it ll be a long time before we know what happened scientifically, but I suppose you d be ready for the insane asylum now if the contact had lasted several tenths of a millisecond longer. What kind of cat did you have out in front of you? Underhill felt the words coming out of him slowly. Words were such a lot of trouble compared with the speed and the joy of thinking, fast and sharp and clear, mind to mind! But words were all that could reach ordinary people like this doctor. His mouth moved heavily as he articulated words, Don t call our Partners cats. The right thing to call them is Partners. They fight for us in a team. You ought to know we call them Partners, not cats. How is mine? I don t know, said the doctor contritely. We ll find out for you. Meanwhile, old man, you take it easy.
If an erroneous score be proved, such mistake can be corrected prior to the conclusion of the game in which it occurred, and such game is not concluded until the trump card of the following deal has been turned up. 12. If an erroneous score, affecting the amount of the rubber, be proved, such mistake can be rectified at any time during the rubber. CUTTING. 13. The Ace is the lowest card. 14. In all cases, every one must cut from the same pack. 15. Should a player expose more than one card, he must cut again.
Belle, F., the last game of the rubber. Bidding to the Board, means that the points bid for a certain privilege are not to be credited to any player, but are simply the announcement of the value of an undertaking. Biseautes (cartes) F., wedges or strippers. Blätter, G., playing cards. Blocking a Suit, keeping a high card of it, so that the player with a number of smaller cards cannot win tricks with them. Blue Peter, the ask for trumps. Blind, a bet made before seeing the cards.
Tas-el-um, Tos-el-um, don t say Nay, For next Monday morning shall be our wedding day; The wife in the carriage, The husband in the cart. --Hampshire (from friend of Miss Mendham). II. All the boys in our town Leads a happy life, Excepting [Charley Allen], And he wants a wife; And a-courting he shall go Along with [girl s name], Because he loves her so. He kisses her, he cuddles her, He sets her on his knee, And says, My dearest darling, Do you love me? I love you and you love me; We ll both be as happy As birds on the tree. Alice made a pudding, She made it nice and sweet, Up came Charley, cut a slice off-- A slice, a slice, we don t say No; The next Monday morning the wedding goes (or is our wedding day ). I ve got knives and forks, I ve got plates and dishes, I ve got a nice young man, He breaks his heart with kisses. If poor Alice was to die, Wouldn t poor Charley, he _would_ cry. He would follow to the grave With black buttons and black crape, And a guinea for the church, And the bell shall ring. Up came the doctor, up came the cat, Up came the devil with a white straw hat.
If the guess was correct he gained the pin, but if it was incorrect he forfeited one. The players played alternately.--Keith (Rev. W. Gregor). Another version seems to be Headim and Corsim. Pins are hid with fingers in the palms of the hands; the same number is laid alongside them, and either Headim or Corsim called out by those who do so. When the fingers are lifted, if the heads of the pins hid and those beside them be lying one way when the crier cried Headim, then that player wins; but if Corsim, the one who hid the pins wins. This is the king of all the games at the preens.--Mactaggart s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_.
The checks are picked up in the course of the twisting. These I am told are the orthodox movements; and I do not doubt that in them there is much of very old tradition, although the tenth and eleventh must have been either added or modified since pot checks came into use, for the figures could not be built up with the natural bones. Some other movements are sometimes used according to fancy, as for example the clapping of the ground with the palm of the hand before taking up the checks and catching the ball.--J. T. Micklethwaite (_Arch. Journ._, xlix. 327-28). I am told that in the iron districts of Staffordshire, the round bits of iron punched out in making rivet holes in boiler plates are the modern representatives of hucklebones.