I have sometimes thought that we (the Scotch) have borrowed this recreation from our neighbours of the “Green Isle,” as at their wakes they have a play much of the same kind, which they call “Riding Father Doud.” One of the wakers takes a stool in his hand, another mounts that one’s back, then Father Doud begins rearing and plunging, and if he unhorses his rider with a dash he does well. There is another play (at these wakes) called “Kicking the Brogue,” which is even ruder than “Riding Father Doud,” and a third one called “Scuddieloof.”—Mactaggart’s Gallovidian Encyclopædia.
Patterson (Antrim and Down Glossary) mentions a game called “[Leap the Bullock],” which he says is the same as “[Leap-frog].”
Dickinson’s Cumberland Glossary Supplement, under “Lowp,” says it means a leap or jump either running or standing. The various kinds include “Catskip”—one hitch, or hop, and one jump; “Hitch steppin”—hop, step, and lowp; a hitch, a step, and a leap; “Otho”—two hitches, two steps, and a leap; “Lang spang”—two hitches, two steps, a hitch, a step, and a leap.
See “[Accroshay],” “[Knights],” “[Leap-frog].”
Lubin
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—Hexham (Miss J. Barker).
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