The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
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s English Drama, iii. 243. See Dust-Point. Bob Cherry A childrens game, consisting in jumping at cherries abovetheir heads and trying to catch them with their mouths(Halliwells Dictionary). It is alluded to in Herricks k k k k L 42 BOGGLE ABOUT THE STACKS—BOGGLE-BUSH Hcspcridcs as Chop Cherry.… … Ca -J:) -1.- jA-^, {Bcrksliii-c Glossary). It is also mentioned in PeacocksManlcy ami CorriJigliaiii Glossary. Strutt gives a curiousillustration of the game in his Sports and Pastimes, which ishere reproduced from tlie original MS. in the British I\luseum.The Staifordshire St. Clement Day custom…
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