A boy’s game, called in the South “Hoop or Hoop Hide.” This is a curious instance of corruption, for the name hoop is pronounced in the local manner as hooip, whence whip.—Easther’s Almondbury Glossary.
Whishin Dance
An old-fashioned dance, in which a cushion is used to kneel upon.—Dickinson’s Cumberland Glossary.
See “[Cushion Dance].”
Who goes round my Stone Wall
Who’s going round my stone wall?
Nobody, only little Jacky Lingo.
Pray don’t steal none of my fat sheep,
Unless I take one by one, two by two, three by three,
Follow me.
Have you seen anything of my black sheep?
Yes! I gave them a lot of bread and butter and sent them up there [pointing to left or right].
Then what have you got behind you?
Only a few poor black sheep.
Well! let me see.
[The child immediately behind Johnny Lingo shows its foot between her feet, and on seeing it the centre child says]
Here’s my black sheep.
—Winterton, Anderby, Nottinghamshire (Miss M. Peacock).