Bonnety
This is a boys’ game. The players place their bonnets or caps in a pile. They then join hands and stand in a circle round it. They then pull each other, and twist and wriggle round and round and over it, till one overturns it or knocks a bonnet off it. The player who does so is hoisted on the back of another, and pelted by all the others with their bonnets.—Keith, Nairn (Rev. W. Gregor).
Booman
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—Norfolk.
Dill doule for Booman, Booman is dead and gone,
Left his wife all alone, and all his children.
Where shall we bury him? Carry him to London;
By his grandfather’s grave grows a green onion.
Dig his grave wide and deep, strow it with flowers;
Toll the bell, toll the bell, twenty-four hours.
—Norfolk, 1825-30 (J. Doe).