We will bury him in the bed of glory, glory, glory, We will bury him in the bed of glory, and we ll never see him any more. --Holywood, co. Down (Miss C. N. Patterson). V. I ve come to see Jenny jo, Jenny jo, Jenny jo, I ve come to see Jenny jo, How is she now? Jenny jo is washing clothes, washing clothes, washing clothes, Jenny jo is washing clothes, You can t see her now. I ve come to see Jenny jo, Jenny jo, Jenny jo, I ve come to see Jenny jo, How is she now? Jenny jo is ironing clothes, ironing clothes, ironing clothes, Jenny jo is ironing clothes, You can t see her now. I ve come to see Jenny jo, Jenny jo, Jenny jo, I ve come to see Jenny jo, How is she now? Jenny jo is sick, my dear, sick, my dear, sick, my dear, Jenny jo is sick, my dear, You can t see her now. I ve come to see Jenny jo, Jenny jo, Jenny jo, I ve come to see Jenny jo, How is she now? Jenny jo is underboard, underboard, underboard, Jenny jo is underboard, You can t see her now.
The tune of the Newbury game (Miss Kimber) is the same as the _first_ part of the Ogbourne tune printed (Mr. H. S. May); that from Nottingham (Miss Youngman) is the same as the first part of the London version. This is also the case with the Hanbury, Staffs. (Miss E. Hollis) and Fernham and Longcot game. What difference there is is very slight. The Platt, Kent, game (Miss Burne), is sung to the same tune as Green Gravel, given _ante_, p. 170.
=_ On discovery of the false opening, each player is allowed to take down whatever amount he may have paid into the pool, including his original ante and all fatteners, and the false opener must then make the entire amount good. The cards are then dealt afresh. This is a very harsh punishment for a very trifling and common error. The second method is the most popular, and probably the fairest, and is now the universal rule. If the false opener does not discover his mistake until he has drawn cards, his action is at least suspicious, and he should be compelled to put up the total amount in the pool, as in case three. In some localities such a player is barred from playing the next two jacks, but compelled to ante his share in each. _=Betting Jacks.=_ When a jack pot has been properly opened, and all have declared whether or not they will stay, and have drawn cards, the players proceed to bet on their hands. As there is no age in jack pots, the rule is for the opener to make the first bet; or, if he has been raised out before the draw, the player next on his left who still holds cards. The opener may decline to bet if he pleases; but if he does so, he must show his openers, and then abandon his hand.
The boys of Nairn call this running of the gauntlet, through fire an watter. The method of playing the Warwick, Fernham, and Louth versions is practically the same. The children stand in half-circle beginning with the two tallest at either end. All clasp hands. The two at one end question those at the other end alternately (fig. 1). At the last line the two that have been answering hold their hands up to form a bridge, and all the others thread through, still holding hands (the bridge advancing slowly) (fig. 2). The Louth version is also sometimes played as Oranges and Lemons. This is also the case with the Belfast, South Shields, Ellesmere, and Dublin versions.
Blue? Blue is for the sailors, sailors, sailors, Blue is for the sailors, and that won t do. Pink? Pink is for the babies, babies, babies, Pink is for the babies, and that won t do. White? White is for a wedding, a wedding, a wedding, White is for a wedding, and that won t do. Black? Black is for the mourners, mourners, mourners, Black is for the mourners, and that will do. Poor Jenny Jones is dead, dead, dead, Poor Jenny Jones is dead, and lies in her grave. --Southampton (from nursemaid of Mrs. W. R. Carse). VIII.
R. S. Baker, who records this, says a Wellingborough lady sent him the tune and words, and told him the game was more like a country dance than anything else, being a sort of dancing Follow My Leader. Gully A sink, or, failing that, a particular stone in the pavement was the Gully. Some boy chosen by lot, or one who volunteered in order to start the game, laid his top on the ground at some distance from the Gully. The first player then spun his top, pegging at the recumbent top, so as to draw it towards the Gully. If he missed the top, he stooped down and took up his own top by pushing his hand against it in such a manner that the space between his first and second finger caught against the peg and forced the top into the palm of his hand. He then had a go at the recumbent top (I forget what this was called), and sent his own top against it so as to push it towards the Gully. If he missed, he tried again and again, until his own top could spin no longer. If he did not hit the top with his own while it was spinning, his top had to be laid down and the other one taken up, and its owner took his turn at pegging.
Jib-Job-Jeremiah An undescribed Suffolk game.--Moor s _Suffolk Words_, p. 238. Jiddy-cum-jiddy A northern name for See Saw. Jingle-the-bonnet A game in which two or more put a halfpenny each, or any piece of coin, into a cap or bonnet. After jingling or shaking them together, they are thrown on the ground; and he who has most heads when it is his turn to jingle, gains the stakes which were put into the bonnet.--Jamieson. Halliwell (_Dictionary_) says this is a northern name for the game of Shake Cap, and Brockett (_North Country Words_) speaks of it as a game much practised among the young pitmen and keelmen. Jingo-ring Here we go by jingo-ring, jingo-ring, jingo-ring, Here we go by jingo-ring, and round by merry-ma-tansy. --Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).