Cuckoo
A child hides and cries “Cuckoo.” The seekers respond—
Cuckoo cherry-tree,
Catch a bird and bring it me.
—Burne’s Shropshire Folk-lore, p. 222.
Halliwell calls this a game at ball, and the rhyme runs—
Cuckoo cherry tree,
Catch a bird and bring it me;
Let the tree be high or low,
Let it hail, rain or snow.
See “[Hide and Seek].”
Cuddy and the Powks
Two boys join hands and feet over the back of a third, the which creeps away with them on hands and knees to a certain distance; and if able to do this, he, the Cuddy, must have a ride as one of the powks on some other’s back.—Mactaggart’s Gallovidian Encyclopædia.