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لله
OLD SCOTS GAMES.
SUGGESTIONS OF THE ANCIENT ORIGIN.
[BY REV. DR. KING HEWISON, F.S.A.SCOT.] Unworthy is the not uncommon are
SUGGESTIONS OF FIRE WORSHIP.
It is natural to expect that a people sú conservative of games reminiscent of their old virility and military powers abould also retain memorials of their primitiva superstitions and faith. The connection between certain extant cus
CANBERRA. AUSTRALIA'S NEW CAPITAL.
Three thousand people are to-day fashioning the national capital-Can- berra-writes a correspondent of the Melbourne Herald, whose views are
that the Sects always take their pleasures | toms and children's sports to be referred quoted in The British Australian and sadly. It is not in keeping with fact to with sun, fire, and spirit worship can reflect signs of establishment. Something New Zealander. The city is beginning to when one recalls the numerous forms of Lonly be a matter of conjecture. One al substantial is now visible to indicate just spart in which the Seats, from infancy, most regrets the action of the authorities how much more than £1,000,000, has been'! to eld, for generations have indulged.ia Hawick in extinguishing the im
speut in the creation of the nation's hendquarter% "Even in the remotest recesses of the land memorist custom of the young Jockies are traces of time-honsared forms of en-and Jillets, thers, who, in each other's tertainment which indicate that various arms in token of their pledged love, were races had always an aptitude for and de
wont to roll down the face of the pere of "Teribus re Teriodin" may
light in all kinds of games, inuocent / Moathill en May morn, as the worship of commerce and industry, but rather as
have done.
The lush capital has been created in spite of hostility. It is a real live the not far distant future it will arise factor in our national make-up, and in
as Australia's Brat city-not in the sense the fountain from which will spring the laws intended to make this country a better pince to live in. Within two years the national Parliament will have been shifted from Melbourne.
"I have been fortunate enough to have
Amusements, and happy trials of skill.
Traces of Ere worship are all but Leaving out of account the higher
obliterated. The burning of the "Clavie forms of entertainment, which were in with the reompaniment of frolics is still vogue for centuries, such as the exercise kept up in Burghead. And in connection of song-craft-which reached a high de- with this relic of the worship of Mithras, had the opportunity to travel over the the existence in recent years in Nithsdale Federal Territory from end to end. It is gree of perfection in Scotland: the use of a game of bull-baiting, when a bellow-ideally situated. The city itself occupies of masient instruments--ħarn, viol, „lute, ing boy representing a mad bull chased a vast amphitheatre with beautiful vistas. and pipe-dancing, merrymaking by his mates till led away to be sacrificed, It is favoured with an equable climate. may be mentioned. Some of an older Its' wide spaces reflect Australia's vust- jests, comic tricks, reading, of riddles, generation may survive who have seen the ness. Its citizen of the future should| and other similar unusements suitable game of "preestent" played-it is also possess the wide outlook. for the hearthside on long winter even-alled "Jack's alive "--where an object ings, it will be found that few countries are such as a peat, a piece of wood, or other ember is passed round those en ever had a greater variety of joy-giving, circling a hearth, each one saying— intellectual, and commendable games. than old-time Scotland had. Fortunate- by a considerable number of these sports, **shavies," **gelis," and amusementa survive in rural places, although the majority of them have fallen into deste- tude even during this generation without leaving anything better in their places.
Now scores of them are inere names, and so little known that they require de- finition and explanation even to well-in- formed Scots readers.
"About wi" that, about wi", that,
Keep alive the preestent." Another rhyme was:
Robin-a-Ree, ye'll no dee wi' me, Tho' I birl ye round a three, times
three:
O Rebin-a-Ree, O Robin-n-Rec, Odinna let Robin-a-Reerie dee." In Glasgow the game was called "Lock Buling, and the children's rhyme ran as follows:-
To refer to tappie-tousie." "capie-' Isle,"
"shue-gled-wylie," " the glaika,” aurenddock," and "whigmalerie" is speaking a forgotten tongue. These disin ́earded sports are legion in number. But
"Jock Bulong—a bazel waun,
A poker and a key,
A bow of meal to Gleses,
Anither to Dundee:
Twn aticks, twa stanes, Shall be laid on thy baries. If that red stick goes oot in thy
haund.".
A forfeit was exacted from the player
whose hand the fire expired.
"Standing out prominently and con. spicuously above everything else to be seen here in the picturesque landscape is the new white-faced Parliament House, a huge noble structure which when com-. Weted, will have cost more than £250,000, mostly distributed in the purchase of Australian material and labour.
ON WITH THE JOB
TINY BLISTERS ON BABY GIRL
Face and Neck a Terriblej Sight Cuticura Healed.
When my baby was a iponth jold she came out from head to foot) (with tiny, watery-Hks Bilsters, and The skin was infamed around them, Her little face and neck were a bar- Iridlesight. The trouble was ACCOM= pabled by an awini rechness, and for nights we had no sleep.
I had her treated bot without succras. I read an advacilement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment and vent for a free samplo. I pur- (chased imore, and after using two jelna of Cuticura Ointment, with the "Soap, she was healed." (Bigned)] Mrs. Ellen E. Gardner, 80, Castid Rd., Southsea, Hanta.. Eng.
GIFT
Give Cuticut Soap. Ointment and Talcum the care of your skin. Step and Claiment sold throughout the
Abo for maŭ ardavali with meles,
Try the Cuticura Sharing Stick.
BACHELOR M.P.'S.
FOR DINNER PROM " EVE AND THE SERPENT."
The precautions which had been taken, not entirely successfully, to conceal the identity of the 36 bachelor M.P.'s who attended the annual dinner of the bache
Since the Federal Capital Commis.lor M.P.'s at the House of Commons were sion, with Mr. J. H. Butters as the head, maintained to the end. took over the control of this great national worken little more than twelve nionths ago, the undertaking has mad rapid progress. The Commission has napped out a programune this year in volving the expenditure of £1,250,000. There are adequate signs here that the money will be spent within the appointed period.
Many, it seems, feared that they might be overwhelmed with offers of marriage, and some justification for this fear, has been provided by the post-bag of Sir James Agg-Gardiner, the organiser of the dinner, during the past few days.
It is gathered that the speeches were well up to the standard of the last dinner of the kind two years ago.
Sir Robert Horne, who was in the chair, entertained the party with a num- ber of atorics. He is one of the best Pacouteurs in the House.
The absence of eertniu M.P.'s who have colamitting matri.
fallen from grace be
"Around Parliament House ploughs and scoops are at work, giving the neces sary levels to the gardens. A hillock is being removed so as not to obscure the view between the House and the magni- fent Hotel Canberra. Thousands of trees are being planted around the Legis from those generally extant one can learn child was termed a "dingledousie." and his court for the use of niembers is being alluded to in sad terus by more than one lative home. A bowling green and a test during the past two years was that, from ancient times the Scots were
prepared without regard to expense. wont to spend their leisure hours mirth-making as well as in profitable employments.
In Dumfriesshire a fiery plaything of this kind given by foolish parents to a
there, half a century ago, whirling the indiagledousie 1 into a wheel of fire was.l
net infrequent sport of boys in a dark night. The bullroarer was another an cient noisy plaything.
GAMES OF MASTERY. "
These forms of enjoyment can be classified in various ways-outdoor and indoor amusements, games for adults and children, games of mastery, mystery, joy, skill, and wickedness. The games of mastery clearly indiente the manly na ture of a people full of spirit, used to war, and alive to the joy of freedom. With the exception of a few exhibitions at military sports and Highland games, of feats of manly powess in wrestling on foot or horseback, fighting with gloves on, bouts with fanccuous weapons, the tourney is shorn of all its ancient glory, and the game of war forgotten until rerently when it was reproduced in grim reality in every peaceful vale.
(so
speaker.
The dessert at the dinner included two) Under construction, near Yarralmuls, baskets of Australian apples, sent by not far from the centre of the city, is a weir which will hold back six feet of water Eve and the serpens present their com
Australia House with a note stating: covering the low-lying areas, and thus pre-pliments to the bachelor M.P.'s of the vide a fake of ample dimensions on which British House of Commons and beg to there will be boating and sailing.
request their acceptance of the accom- anying basket of Empire dessert apples The menu card was decorated with from the Australian Garden of Eden. quotations, including the line Marriage is a tauing thing
No Socialist bachelor M.P.'swers present
Between Queanbeyan and Canberra a fleet of modern buses is plying, bringing gut daily people anxious to get rich quick by applying their enterprise to the row
RING AND JOY GAMES. But a few sports having some kind of mystical significance have descended from medievak times connected with church festivals and sacred seasons at Ne'erday, Candlemas, Fastern Een, Easter, Alling capital. Fools' Day May Day, Merrymass, Hal modern shops are being constructed. As At Eastlake, the industrial centre, lowe'en, and logmanay. They recall the far as business is concerned the present revels of The Abbot of Unreason," so trend is in the direction of over-optimism. Well, described by Sir Walter Scott, No until 1997 will the big influx from
To what primitive rites, ceremonies, 3elbourne take place."
corrobortees the circular worship, or Maypole. games of children may be traced-the "Jingo-ring, Cureuddock."
and Through the needle e'e boys"—is | see-saw, skipping rope, sliding and hun- matter of conjecture. The Merrykers, spelks, stilts, squeakers, suckers, metanzic" thyme is still, common on our swings, throwing stones, tig, top, or playgrounds; the Needle-ee rhyme is for peerie.. gotten in many parts.
The joy games of children are still very numerous in Scotland. The more familiar are the following:-Ball (hand, foot, cricket with bat), bonnets (various), No wild bickers" now disturb the fools (marbles, taws), huminers (whither spale), circle games with singing "change Calton Hill, ne battle is heard of stones seats--the King'a come," cheepers, chucks,
common after the Disruption of dances, Deil and the four corners, 1813, when opposing schoolboys settled the dice, "dacks and drakes, drakes skimming pious feuds of their fathers on bloody water, girrs, hafty or peevor, bares and playgrounds: no bulzie waps" on the hounds, hop-step-and jump, ho-apy, hant useway of Edinburgh ending in a pro-the lipper, jinkie, kite-flying, knife, casion of gory shirts engages the atten-leap-frog. pitch and tess, pitchers or tion of the King. A faint echo of those pennystones, putting the stone prisoners stirring days of gallant adventure may at base, Queen's cushion, racing, riding be got from the annual snowball fight horses (hockerty-rockety), rockety-how,
(Continued on next Column). or the noisy, fray of boys wielding their.. bonnets tied in knots and, with vigour of The Bruce, swinging them in their i "Battle of Bannockburn" or "Scots and English."
TAPPIE TOUSIE
The sling of David, so long an effective weapon with boys on the Borders, is well-nigh out of use. In imitation of the bold exploits of their forebears these lively young Borderers, mounted on each teather's backs, would ride na "Dragoom and Covenanters," and play their games of cockie ridie-rousie," Willie Wastell," and The King's Covenanter," and "Run-im-oe'r and similar sports.
In Galloway and Dumfriesshire the game entitled The King's Covenanter" was termed The King of Cantland," or "The King and Queen of Cantelon," and may be associated with another stirring game called "tappie-tousie.” In this latter sport the children simulated a raid and led back prisoners by their forelocks, shouting as they came back victors, Tappie, tappie, tousit, will ye be my man The Gallovidians also had an indoor game which had some connection with a warlike time. It was entitled Wadds and the weares," i...p pledges and the wars.
[3593 Hongkong, 23rd 31-y, 192 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN,
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"COBLENZ". having arrived from BRRMEN, HAMBURG and Parts. Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Cargo is being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown. Co Lid
Kowloon, where Delivery can be obtained
All Goods remaining undelivered after the
will be Bent 31st of May, 1926, vel in subject to buy me in
No Fire any case whatever,
Damaged Fackages must be left in the the Company' Surveyors, Hesars. Anderson ☎ Arno, at 10 mm, en 28th of May, 1926.
-No Claims will be admitted after the Goods Godown for examination by the Consignees bayhood, allied forth to the woods to
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining zadelivered after the 31st instant, will be anbject to Bent.
Claims against the Stommer must be prration tell the Undersigned on a bore the 13th Jane, 1926, or they will not be recognised
All broken, phafed and damaged Goods are to be, jeft in the Godowns, where they will be eramined on the 21st instant, at 10 am No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bilet Laling ill be countertigakib
GIRB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD.,
[8590 Hongkody, 24th May, 1928.
No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godown and all Claims must be presented within Two Weeks of the Steamer arrival here, after which date they will not be recognised.
Consignees
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MELCHERS & co.,- Mesa Agenta: NOKIDETICHEL LLOYD, BREKEN
[3699 Hongkong, 23rd May, 1926,
Very probably such spirited and happy Amugglers games as prisoners base," geg " (gag)" ho-spy.” “Robin Hood,” and hard heads" are reminiscences of troublous times forgotten by adults. Every year as summer came round the boys of Mid-Nithsdale, in the writer's
cut flexible saplings and harel wands to convert into bowa, arrows, and Crusaders
words, even as their fathers centuries before had done under Act of Paris- ment when they cut their ugly eighteen feet pikes And as they held the "duns" the wetried, players, cried out the word heard on many a French battlefield, A barley, barley "-ile., - parler, Armistice. Then what, the,, borsin Roxburgh called "a day simong the dockens” ceased.
an
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Many of the old games of skill have revived; the long bow is still drawn in Edinburgh; "cachepole" has been re- vived in tennis: golf is almost universal; shinty is on the increase as a winter Tues. 25 m
more devotees: game: eurling had bowling never more enthusiasts; and Wed. 28 quoiting, wrestling, and racing are still national sports.
Thar. 27 m Of the parts which indicated a de
28 Im praved taste and were relics from a bar- Fri. barous time, such as casting at the cocks
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as Candlemas, spanhewing, pillie-winkie, Satar. 29 m it is unnecessary to write anything, as these are things of the past like the hunt-Sat. ing of the wren, while the surviving
hunting of the gowk" is now the most Mon. 31 m 11 12
harmless of mirth-making sports.
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