GAMES. 219

 

this the following questions are asked, with the replies.—C.
Where have you been? D. To the wood. C What for? D. to
pick up sticks. C What for? D. To light my fire. C. What
for? D. To boil my kettle. C. What for? D. To cook some
of your chickens. The children then all run away as fast as they
can, and the Old Dame tries to catch one of them. Whoever is
caught is the next to personate the Dame.

CCCLXX.

IN the game where the following lines are used, one person
goes round inside a ring of children, clapping a cap between his
hands. When he drops it at the foot of any one, that one leaves
his position and gives chase, and is obliged to thread the very
same course among the children till the first is caught. The first
then stands with his back towards the centre of the ring, the one
called out takes his place, and thus they continue till nearly all
are “turned.”

My hand burns hot, hot, hot,
And whoever I love best, I'll drop this at his foot!

CCCLXXI.
NIDDY-NODDY.

A SIMPLE but very amusing game at cards, at which any
number can play. The cards are dealt round, and one person
commences the game by placing down a card, and the persons
next in succession who hold the same card in the various suits
place them down upon it, the holder of the last winning the
trick. The four persons who hold the cards say, when they put
them down,

1, There’s a good card for thee.
_ 2, There’s a still better than he

3. There’s the best of all three.

4. And there is Niddy-noddee!

The person who is first owz, receives a fish for each card unplayed.