Pins
On the 1st of January the children beg for some pins, using the words, “Please pay Nab’s New Year’s gift.” They then play “a very childish game,” but I have not succeeded in getting a description of it.—Yorkshire.
See “[Prickie and Jockie].”
Pirley Pease-weep
A game played by boys, “and the name demonstrates that it is a native one, for it would require a page of close writing to make it intelligible to an Englishman.” The rhyme used at this play is—
Scotsman, Scotsman, lo!
Where shall this poor Scotsman go?
Send him east, or send him west,
Send him to the craw’s nest.
—Blackwood’s Magazine, August 1821, p. 37.
The rhyme suggests comparison with the game of “[Hot Cockles].”