Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-29

ullIlu - hutuCG the DOFS OFlBluallN
obtained their barbarous methods Of
Counting out" for Catcher" ''fox,"
or any Of those pleasant juvenile
games requiring heetness of foot and
a secretive disposition. For instance:
lot of boys will get together to play
at some of their games, and one them
viii start out TO see "who's it." He
will go through a great rigamole of
words, applying one word to each as
he designates him by a tap on the
breast, and the last one so honored is
sit, as they call the catcher" as
| thus
''Onery, ORGY, IckOTy. Ann.
Flliisin, Foliisun, NichOla', John,
Eyy, Quayy,
English Navy,
Stnkilum, Ssankulum, Buck"
Now, there are those who would
/ like to know what scene there is in all
that, and what the mystery connected
with these portentous words. And
/ also in this, another mode of counting
out:
Cocoa, bocca,
BOnna, crOCka,
Occa, bOccl, tuce!"
Or in this, which is considerably
less elegant, though possibly more
significant than the two preceding:
"Ink, pink.
/ How you do stink!'
The future bellies of the Queen
/ City, it must be confessed, use the
! same savage methods IN making Their
/ election, of "who's it?" etc. The girls
have also a good many Incompetent
sible chants and songs of their own.
/ The starting point is of course, 'ring
| around the rosy pot" for it is utter
imposibility for girls-that is, small
and rea! girls-to play anything very
! long that does not require a clasping
of hands and their circling about
with some outlandish chant. Their
/ favOrite song is:
"Green gravel,
| Green gravel.
How green the grass grows.
And all the creation
J. ashamed To be SEE n,
u sar Annie. dear Annie.
Your true love 3 dead.
lie sent you letter,
So turn back your heal
/ WhereupOn the dear Annie in ques-
/ ton reverses her top -kuOt TO the bal
/ ance of the circle and continues 10 go
I round IN that position until the dread
/ full tidings of the decease of the true
( love Of Dear Lizzie, "Dear Louie -
| etc, is conveyed to them respective
/ ly. and they, IN turn, reverse them
! selves in honor of the departed.
| When the whole list of names in the
circle is exhausted, and the bereaved
/ objects of so much pure affection arc
in mourning together, the game is
/ played over again.
If there chance to be any youthful
representative of the male sex about
with whom the Young ladies are on
/ good terms, the chant Is sometimes
varied thus, the circling performance
never ceasing for an instant:
Little Minnie Tun
4 sitting in the sun,
a weeping and crying for oung man
i,ise, Minnie, rise, Minnie,
Wipe away YOUR tear;
Look 70 the East and look 10 he West.
And look TO The one that you love best
And Minnie Immediately casts a
languishing look upon some young
shaver among the boys; who, in re-
/ spOnse, as quickly assumes a melan-
choly air, breathes hard a couple of
times, and attempts q simultaneous
i
But this Is getting off the main sub
lect-bOys The lives of most of the
great heroes, philosophers and states
men that have figured in the world 5
history have been written, the ''self-
made" men Cf the country have been
run through a Hoe press several thou
sand times. and the future of prom
ising youths throughout the land has
4
ly. But who shall write UP the youth
OF our distinguished soldiers and
statesmen, and mOneyed men? There
are manv gentlemen of celebrity in
this vicinity whose juvenile expert
ence would pan out handsomely, but
we are afraid none them would be so
frank and cutepolFen on the subject
as Colonel Richard Holland, now of
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, but a Gin
cinnatian "born and raised" The
Colonel admits having been the Wick
edest BOY in Cincinnati. lie was q
Lock street boy, and fond or the ca
nal. He was also fond of ginger
cake; and on one occasion abstracted
the grocery pass-book from beneath
the paternal roof, and obtained twelve
sections of that substantial and spicy
creature comfort for the benefit of his
/ crowd, who ate it IN a neighbOring
board-yard, and gave three times
three for the author OF the feast. An
attempt to alter the figures IN the
book failed, however, aud the youth
Z tul financier received large dose Of
strap oil, as a curative for his smart
ness. The Colonel was likewise fond
of gun, and as his father had one
which the old gentleman priced very
highly, Richard and his brother took
1t out on the hill to shoot ''chippies
on an average three times a week,
Richard taking the weapon apart aud
ramming the stock up the back of his
coat, while his brother carried the
barrel in one of his trousers legs, so
as TO get it out of the house unseen.
They managed the ramrOd by tying a
string to IL and making whip of It
until they got out of sight. They had
''lOts of fun" with the gun until the
brother tried TO shoot the ramrod out
one day, when it kicked him over, and
Knocked both hammers TO a full cock.
Richard didn't see his brother for
over five minute, and then had to car
~ him home. There was no more
shooting of "chippies."
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