One child hides an article, while those who are to search for it go in another room (or out of the way somewhere). When it is hidden, they are called to find it by one of the above rhymes being sung or said. The searchers are enabled more readily to find the hidden article by being told “hot,” “very hot,” “scorching,” “burning,” or “cold,” “very cold,” and “freezing,” when near to or far from the hidden article. Sometimes several may agree to hide the article, and only one to be the finder. In the [Penzance game] one child is blindfolded, other children hide something, then shout the words. Search is then made for the hidden object: when found, the finder in his turn is blindfolded. There appears to be some mistake in the description of this game.
Hinch-Pinch
The name of an old Christmas game mentioned in Declaration of Popish Impostures, 1603.
Hinmost o’ Three
A game played on village greens.—Dickinson’s Cumberland Glossary, Supplement.
Hirtschin Hairy
The players (boy or girl) cower down on their haunches, “sit doon curriehunkers,” and hop round and round the floor like a frog, clapping the hands first in front and then behind, and crying out, “Hirtschin Hairy.” It is sometimes called “Hairy Hirtschin.” In Lothian the players try to knock each other over by hustling against one another.—Rev. W. Gregor.
Same game as “[Harie Hutcheon].”
See “[Curcuddie],” “[Cutch-a-cutchoo],” “[Hop-frog].”