The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-15

On cold aid frosty morning.
This is the way we comb our hair
On cold and frosty morning.
brushing the hair, brushing the teeth
walking 10 school, sitting at school, and
countless other duties, pleasures and
shirkings of childhood being initiated in
action as ''Mul erry Bush is sung.
There are m yriad girls games, nearly
all of which, clriously enough, as in other
ln@lish speaking countries, seem to de-
rive their greatest interest and faSCina-
zion to little Scottish lassies from their
nearness to the mock heroics in the court
ing, love and marriage affairs of their
elders. The cOmmOnest of these are
Rise Sally Walker" in which Sally
rises" and follows her guidman," is
welded, has lovely children, first girl
and then a. bOy,n in which all of her
welded joys and sorrows are delineated,
with marching and singing; In and Out
the Window in which, in and out OF
rings, with the interminable singing and
marching lassie evidently finally de-
parts, and her lover is shriekingly en-
joined to follow her up to London )" my
Name is Queen Mary"
My age is sixteen,
My fathers a farmer
On yOnder green.
He plenty of money
To dress me sac Draw;
There S nae bonnie laddie
Can take me awa,-
but there is bonnie laddie who gives her
"Ha, ha,'' and takes her ava :"
breakfast Time" where breakfast
times coming on" as well as dinner, sup
per, bed, church, school, play, and all
other possible times, in which it is exact
and proper time ito catch bonnie las
Sic" Beds" in which "mither' is
r1rs,,s
daughter. The mother aghast inquiries
where the money is to come from. The
fathers feather bed shall be sold The
successive queries and answers then put
the fat er in the girls bed, the girls in
the boy s bed, the boys in the pigsty, the
pig in the wash-tub, with the final dra-
matte shift of having the family washing
dome by the river tide; and that most
popular and uniEersalof all Scottish girls
pastimes, THE Gala Ship or "Merrima
Tansa."
This " Merrima Tansa'' (perhaps
Merry Matansa') is played by all the
girls present joining hands in a circle,
upon which they march round and round
singing;
Three times round goes the gala. gala ship,
And three times round goes she;
Three times round goes the gala. gala ship,
nd sinks to the bottom Of the sea.
1nCy 10 ca blllb sCOuI bCSS luE tON
The RS, to courtesy is placed in the center
of the circle, when The Others sing:
Choose your matdens one by one
One one, one by one
Che sc you maidens one by one
And down goes (all courtesy Mer-
rima Tansa
She chooses her maidens. They take
her to distance, when she is secretly
told the name of her lover. The remain
1aV Of hn rrfVsl q
sing several stanzas to the effect that
they will sweep the house till the bride
comes hOme,n when the bride is now
placed within the circle, and from a score
to an hundred stanzas, with marching
and various limitations of what the lucky
bride accomplishes or undergoes are sung.
Each one closes with Down goes Mer-
rima Tansa" aud the head-ducking; and
this wonderful music-drama of child
hood is not concluded until the christen-
ing of the brides firsJ-born, with,
Next Sund " morn to church she must gaze,
A bate on her knee, the Uest OF "a
And down goe, Merrlma Iansa
The lads of Scotland graduate at an
early age from the rough and tumble
games of the alley, the street and the
school-yard to rolf, football and cricket.
In cricket the goal is called the hale"
Ii the boys cannot afford wickets, their
country boys the Association rules are in
higher repute than the more famous rules
of Rugby. But the boys are we'll
equipped before the latter dignity ar
rives. In marbles or "bools," they are
universally skillful players. If the mar
bles be given up at the end of each game,
then it is called funny; if not, "wun-
ny" In the latter, if all a players mar
bles are lost he is termed ''rookit." Both
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"aimey." In "knuckleyn the knuckle is
used for shooting the "bool, - in "aimey"
it is thrown from the hand. The more
recent games are played by "stotting'
the "bool" against the ground and wall
and catching it, enabling the "stOttern to
get nearer the row Of marbles. If his
"bool" fails to lay between the mark and
the wall, he may be KILLED" by the next
''stotter."
The wild harum-scarum games of the
schoolyard and common are principally
king" Horny" Wheel French
TIC, ""Too," "Cross-Tig' and Base or
"Cavie" pronounced cavy). In the game
of "King. - one lad is "Chapped out" TO
chase and touch or "tig'' another upon
the head. The latter joining hands with
him another is added TO their number,
and so on until all are captured; the last
one taken beginning the game anew.
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"King'n In Horny the first boy claps
his hands when running to "tig," and
may ''tig'' on any part Of the body. In
"Wheet" the boys taken do not JOIN
hands. but run singlY: and generally sides
are chosen, the attempt being to pass
each other with the fewest possible being
taken: for those so captured must then
ioin the respective opposing sides.
In "French Zig" the first boy runs
after all theothers until a boy is "tigged.
The one taken must hold one hand on the
exact part of the body which has been
touched, until he succeeds in "tlgging."
another. The chief point in this game IS
10 always "tig'' on a portion OF the BODY
difficult TO hold while "tigging" another;
This impedes the tigers running ana
enables the other boys TO gather about
closely and give him royal teasing,
In iToo" the boy that Is 'chapped oot,
IL mt in "A corner called the den All
the others cavort about and tauntiIngiy
cry "Too!" when the boy springs rom
his den and endeavors 10 "tig the others.
sist,..,. toi,s,, aesfst him ia Ills next sally