Volume I Part 68 (1/2)

Jib-Job-Jeremiah

An undescribed Suffolk game.-Moor's _Suffolk Words_, p. 238.

Jiddy-c.u.m-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).

Sung to the ”Mulberry” or ”Ivy bush” tune.

The children form a ring and dance round singing. At the last word they all fall down.

See ”Merry-ma-tansa.”

Jinkie

A game among children, in which they run round a table trying to catch one whose business is by quick turns to elude them.-Jamieson.

Jock and Jock's Man

A juvenile sport in which the _bon camarada_ is to repeat all the pranks which the leader can perform.-Brockett's _North Country Words_.

See ”Follow my Gable,” ”Follow my Leader.”

Jockie Blind-man

Scotch name for ”Blind Man's Buff.”-Jamieson.

See ”Blind Man's Buff.”

Joggle along

I. Come all you young men In your youthful ways, And sow your wild oats In your youthful days.

Then you'll be happy, Then you'll be happy, As you grow old.

For the day's far spent, And the night's coming on, So give us your arm, and We'll joggle along.