Other versions of this holloa are—
Whoop, whoop, and hollow!
Good dogs won’t follow
Without the hare cries, Peewit.
—Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes, p. 66.
Sound your holler,
Or my little dog shan’t foller.
—Northall’s English Folk Rhymes, p. 357.
This game is played in Wales under the name of “Hunt the Fox.” The Fox has a certain time given him for a start, the other players then go after him.—Beddgelert (Mrs. Williams).
Harie Hutcheon
A game among children, in which they hop round in a ring, sitting on their hams.—Jamieson.
See “[Curcuddie],” “[Cutch-a-cutchoo],” “[Hirtschin Hairy].”