The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-15
VAKENAN'S WANDERINGS.
Interesting Notes About Scottish Chill
dren'S Games.

NASh ~
The Rosy Cheekit,' Blithesome Scot
fish BARNS in Their Sports and
Games-A Rugged, Merry Lot That
Neither Poverty Nor Tempests Can
Repress-Harum-Sca Games of
Wondrous Music-Dramas of Child
hood.
Copyright 1s93, by Edgar L. Wakeman)
Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 2S.-The little
lads and lasses of Scotland are a rugged
and merry lot. In no land in which have
wandered are children more self-sustain-
ing in olden or improvised pastimes and
games. have often thought, too, that
where their denials are greatest, where
poverty pinches hardest, there could al
ways be found the cheeriest little souls
and the heartiest expression of children
hilarity among the ''rosy-cheekit," blith-
some Scottish BARNS. Geography, condi-
and weather can furnish no exception.
1t is the same with highland as with
lowland children; with the ragged, hun
CRY little folk of the western isles as with
the romping rollickers of GLASGOW: wi h
the wee peerie lairds and ladies and fish
ermen's children of the SheJlands aud
Orkneys as with the hard-headed, hard
listed brains of Aud Reekie S" wynds
and closes and precisely the same with
the little nabobs of iron or stone-griI
parks of the cities as with children of the
border towns and those of the misty glens
and cOrries of the north. Childhood in
Scotland may know asperities of environ
ment and rigor of discipline unusual in
some other lands; but the compensation Is
here in the fact that Scottish children
never NOPE" Once released from duty
or relieved from discipline they leap to
their games free as their own wild winds
and mists and the savagest Scottish
storm that bowls up the foaming tirths,
or walls among the lochs and glens has
for them no more terror than sunshine,
when there is liberty for sport and play
The children's folklore of Scotland is
peculiarly rich in contingent rhymes
which are here called fitting GOT" and
"Chapping-oOt." AS with the counting
out rhymes of the children of all coun-
tries the one "chapped ooO" is to bear the
disagreeable or distinguished part in
whatever game may be proposed. In
illustration | shall give a few of the mos
popular of these in Scotland. The frs
examples are chiefly in use in the west of
Scotland:
Mt Foster a very good man.
When he done he takes dance
Up to ondon O er to h rance;
With olack beaver and red snout
Stan yOn you. for you are out!
Eery, orrey. err the mill dam,
F.llmy peck, an let me gang.
Zeeny meeny, hc6ety, fick,
Della dOil. uh mai X;
Harrioo, lock, strong rock,
Zanty, panty, on a rock-toosh'
Ease Ose:
Mon nOSe
Kali parritch,
Pease brOse.
Here is one in use by the children of
the border shires:
Yen-rie twa-rie ticl1ery, seven;
Aiaba, crack tina d. leven;
Tin, tan masky dan
Teedle-du TODD edum. tweaty-one
An ong those peculiar to Edinburgh,
elias ow, and the midland Scotch coun-
ties are:
ink. pink, papers, ink,
Am pam-puSh.
Queen. queen. Caroline.
Dipped her hair in turpentine,
Turpentine made it shine,
Queen, queen, Caroline.
Inty tinty tethery, methery,
Bank for over. Dover, ding,
Aunt tant. tooch;
Up the CauSey. down the Cross
There stands a bonny white horse
1t a gallop, 1t can trot,
1t can carry the mustard pot
One, two, three and out goes She
Aberdeen, has ''chapping-oot" rhyme
which in its French affini lies carries
with it suggestion of the admixture of
French with the Scottish blood in this
portion of Scotland, hundreds of years
ago.
Eenerty, feenerty. hckerty, fac,
FL del domum. aicht:
ETkie, birkie stole a rogue,
An. tan-toot est jock
Originally, no doubt, "tu est Jacques"
transformed into the present Scottish
jock who is thus ''chapped oot"
10 these should be added few of the
more characteristic contingent rhymes
common to all portions of Scotland:
Eenery, teenery, tickery, teven;
III 20 Mary, ten or eleven;
I'm pan, muSky dan;
Nineteen, twenty, twenty-one
0neery, two-ery, tick-ery seven.
Anarby, crakery, ten, eleven
I'm, pan. musician,
Black fish, white trout
Ilat means you are put out
" this G anne,
ne er to come in again.
One-ery, two-ery, tickery ten,
boos OF vinegar, gentlemen.
Bird in the air, fish in the sea,
boi ny wee lassie singing to thee;
One, two, three-o-u-tl
r. mere are hosts of games in which the
~ os.'e lOlh OF both sexes unite, in and out
VI uoors, and which are particularly en-
Fl .oSeu IN holiday time when their elders
ar re occupied in more serious festivities
WV, Une Oh these is 'Lubin Loo" and it is al
ooo5S productive of screaming nerriment,
81 I"Ig 10 eros by players in obeying the
;;rauef commands. The children form
sing: '-'-7 ii''iiN' "i0A 'ii0S a.
Here we play Lubin Loo,
here we play Lubin Light
mere we play Lubin Loo,
III a OF Saturday night
hInnee entire game consists in correctly
ing the sung injunctions, as
now all your right hands in;
An your right hands out
snake them a little a little
Tho ana then whirl round about.
tle d" qulckness and dexterity of the lit
foot are often remarkable The right
len rs put through the tactics; then the
he '{3!I the right and left ears the nose,
.uru.l' Ihe eyes and finally the head
o. "iauges and Lemons Is a good deal