See “[Hop-scotch].”
Hick, Step, and Jump
The game of “[Hop, step, and jump].”—Somerset (Holloway’s Dict. of Provincialisms).
See “[Half-Hammer].”
Hide and Seek (1)
A writer in Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1821, p. 36, mentions this as a summer game. It was called “Ho, spy!” the words which are called out by those boys who have hidden. He says the watchword of “Hide and seek” was “hidee,” and gives as the rhyme used when playing—
Keep in, keep in, wherever you be,
The greedy gled’s seeking ye.
This rhyme is also given by Chambers (Popular Rhymes, p. 122). Halliwell gives the rhyme as—
Hitty titty indoors,
Hitty titty out,
You touch Hitty titty,
And Hitty titty will bite you.
—Nursery Rhymes, p. 213.