The players turn their backs to each other, and link their arms together behind. One player then bends forward, and lifts the other off his [her] feet. He rises up, and the other bends forward and lifts him up. Thus the two go on bending and rising, and lifting each other alternately, and keep repeating—
Weigh butter, weigh cheese,
Weigh a pun (pound) o’ can’le grease.
—Keith (Rev. W. Gregor).
Mr. Northall (English Folk Rhymes) gives this game with the words as—
A bag o’ malt, a bag o’ salt,
Ten tens a hundred.
This game is described as played in the same way in Antrim and Down (Patterson’s Glossary), and also by Jamieson in Roxburgh.
See “[Way-Zaltin].”
When I was a Young Girl
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