Move follows move in swift succession. One realises with a sickening sense of error that one is outnumbered and hard pressed here and uselessly cut off there, that one s guns are ill-placed, that one s wings are spread too widely, and that help can come only over some deadly zone of fire. So the fight wears on. Guns are lost or won, hills or villages stormed or held; suddenly it grows clear that the scales are tilting beyond recovery, and the loser has nothing left but to contrive how he may get to the back line and safety with the vestiges of his command.... But let me, before I go on to tell of actual battles and campaigns, give here a summary of our essential rules. III THE RULES HERE, then, are the rules of the perfect battle-game as we play it in an ordinary room. THE COUNTRY (1) The Country must be arranged by one player, who, failing any other agreement, shall be selected by the toss of a coin.
Hurly-burly. Huss. Hustle Cap. Hynny-pynny. ISABELLA. JACK S Alive. Jack, Jack, the Bread s a-burning. Jack upon the Mopstick. Jackysteauns. Jauping Paste-eggs.
_ Folk-lore Society Publications. CARMARTHENSHIRE-- Beddgelert Mrs. Williams. LIST OF GAMES ACCROSHAY. All-hid. All a Row. All in the Well. All the Birds in the Air. All the Boys in our Town. All the Fishes in the Sea.
Addy (_Sheffield Glossary_) says:-- Two children advance and retire on one side. When the opposite side says Yes! the two take the first child in the row and dance round with her, singing the remaining verse. This is called the wedding. The Lanarkshire version is quite a different one, and contains rather remarkable features. Mr. Black says that the game was played entirely by girls, never by boys, and generally in the months of May or June, about forty years ago. The children sang with rather mincing and refined voices, evidently making an effort in this direction. They walked, with their hands clasped behind their backs, up and down the road. Each child was crowned with rushes, and also had sashes or girdles of rushes. Mr.