Betsy Bungay
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Hi, Betsy Bungay, all day on Sunday;
You’re the lock and I’m the key,
All day on Monday.
—Kent (J. P. Emslie).
Two children cross their hands in the fashion known as a “sedan chair.” A third child sits on their hands. The two sing the first line. One of them sings, “You’re the lock,” the other sings, “and I’m the key,” and as they sang the words they unclasped their hands and dropped their companion on the ground. Mr. J. P. Emslie writes, “My mother learned this from her mother, who was a native of St. Laurence, in the Isle of Thanet. The game possibly belongs to Kent.”
Bicky
In Somersetshire the game of “[Hide and Seek].” To bik’ee is for the seekers to go and lean their heads against a wall, so as not to see where the others go to hide.—Elworthy’s Dialect.
See “[Hide and Seek].”