2.—"Hobble Cadger."
This game consists in the mother or nurse, or whoever wishes to amuse, placing the child on the knee, and then lifting the legs in imitation of rough-riding, repeating the words:—
"Hobble, cadger, creels an a',
The boats is in, an the fish is awa';
Hobble, cadger, creels an a', creels an a'."
This is continued to the great delight of the child as long as the amuser has strength.
3.—"Ride Awa'."
This amusement may be made for the child by the mother or nurse dandling the child on her knee in imitation of riding, or, if the child is old enough, it receives a staff or piece of stick, which it puts between its legs, and then moves about as if riding, and repeats the words itself:[1]—
(a)—"'Ride awa', ride awa',
Ride awa' t' Aiberdeen,
An buy fite breed;'
Bit lang or he cam' back again
The cyarlin wiz deed.
He up wi's club, an said,
'Rise ye up, cyarlin',
An eat fite breed.'" (Mrs. Moir, Kinnethmont.)
(b)—"'Ride awa' t' Aiberdeen
T' buy fite breed;'
Bit lang or he cam' back again
The cyarlin wiz deed.
Sae he up wee's club
An gyah 'ir o' the lug,
Said, 'Rise, rise, aul' cyarlin.
An eet yir fite breed.'" (Mrs. Moir.)
- ↑ Popular Rhymes of Scotland, by R. Chambers, p. 19, Ravista de España, vol. cv, pp. 100, 101.
