The record-union., 1893-10-14
Special Correspondence of the REco RD-
UNION Copyright 1898.

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Special Correspondence of the RECORD
UNION. Copyright 1898.
GLASGOW (Scotland), Sept %, 1893.
The little lads and lasses of Scotland are
a rugged and merry lot. In no land in
which I have wandered are children more
self-sustaining in olden or improvised
pastimes and games. [ have often
thought, too, that where their denials are
greatest, where poverty pinches hardest,
there could always be found the cheeriest
little souls and the heartiest expressions
OF childish hilarity among the "rosy-
cheekit," blithesome Scottish BARNS.
Geography, condition and weather can
furnish no exception.
1t is the same with highland as with
lowland children; with the rugged,
hungry little folk of the western isles as
with the romping rollickers of Glasgow;
with the wee peerie lairds and ladies and
fshermen's children of the Shetlands and
Orkneys as with the hard-headed, hard
fisted BARNS of "Auld Reckless" wynds
and closes; and precisely the same with
the little nabobs of iron and stone-glrt
border towns and those of the misty
glens and corries of the North. Child
hood in Scotland may know asperities OF
environment and rigor Of discipline un-
usual in some other lands; but the COM
pensation is here in the fact that Scottish
children never "mope." 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 hOwls up the foaming
frths, or walls among the lochS and glens
has for them no more terror than sun
shine, when there is liberty for sport and
play.
The children's folklore of Scotland is
peculiarly rich in contingent rhymes
which are here called ''titting cot" and
'schapping oot." AS with the counting
out rhymes of the children of all coun-
tries. the one 'chapped OOt' is to bear the
dlsagreeable or distinguished part in
whatever game may be proposed. In IL
lustration l shall give few OF the most
popular of these in Scotland. The first
examples are chiefly in use in the west OF
Scotland:
Mr.. Fosters a very good man,
Scoops the college now and than.
When hes done ne takes dance
Up TO London, er TO France;
With black beaver and red Snout,
Stan yOn you, for you are out!
Eeery, orrey, DER the mill dam,
Fill my pock an let me gang.
Zeeny, meeny, fckety, fiek,
Della, dolia, ah-nin-ick:
Harl1cO, block, strong rock,
Zanty, panty, on a rOck-tooshi
Ease ose;
Mons nose;
Kali parritch,
Pease brOse.
Here is one in use by the children of
the border shires:
Yen-rie, twa-rie, tickery, seven;
Aiaba crack tinaba, 'leyen;
Tin, tan, maSky, dan
Teedle-dum, tOOdledum, tWenty-one!
Among those peculiar to Edinburgh,
. Glasgow and the midland Scotch counties,
are:
Ink, pink, papers, ink,
Am, pam, push
Queen, queen, Caroline,
Dipped her hair in turpentine,
Turpentine made il 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;
II can gallop, it can trot
1t can carry the mustard pot,
One, two, three, and out goes shei
Aberdeen has ''chapping-o rhyme,
which, in its French affinities, carries
with it suggestion of the admixture of
French with the Scottish blood in this
portion of Scotland, hundreds of years
ago:
Eenerty, feenerty, fickerty, fac,
FL, del, domum. aicht;
Erkie, birkie, stole rogue,
An, tan-toot est jock
Originally, no doubt. ''tat est Jacques"
transformed into the present Scottish
Jock who is thus ''chapped out"
To these should be added a few of the
more characteristic contingent rhymes
common TO ali portions of Scotland:
Eenery, teenery, tickery, teyen;
III 20 Mary, ten or eleven;
Pin, pan, musky dan;
Nineteen, twenty, tWenty-One!
one-ery, two-ery, tick-ery seven.
Anarby, crackery, ten, eleven.
Pin, pan, musician,
Black fish, white trout
That means you are put out
OF this Came
Ne'er TO come in again.
One-ery, two-ery, tickery ten,
Bobs OF vinegar, gentlemen
Bird in the air tish in the sea-
Bonny we lassie singing 10 thee;
One, two, three-o-u-t!
There are hosts of games in which the
little folk OF both sexes unite in and out
OF doors, and which are particularly en-
joyed in holiday time when their elders
are occupied in more serious festivities
One OF these is ''Lnbin Loo" and 1t is al
ways productive of screaming merriment,
owing to errors by players in obeying
the leaders commands. The children
form in ring, joining hands, when they
all sing:
Here we play Lubin Loo,
Here we play Lubin Light;
Here we play Lubin Loo,
A of a saturday night
The entire game consists in correctly
following the sung iniunctions, as
Now ali your right hands in;
All your right hands out.
Shake them little, a little,
And then whirl round about.
The quickness and dexterity of the lit
tie ones are often remarkable. The right
A Powerful