| Show FEW OLD ENGLISH PASTIMES truckling the trencher la Is played by children sitting or kneeling on floor in ring truckling the trencher this Is an old english game the children sit alt on en the floor or kneel in a ring A person in the center holds tho the trench er a pie tin will serve and when all are ready he truckles trickles tru ckles or aping it at tho the same earne time calling the name of some ono one in the ring the one named must spring quickly and try to catch the plate between both hands bands before it stops spinning it lie succeeds he be takes the place in the cen ter and the first truckler goes in the ring if he be does not catch the plate between both hands bands before it stops spinning he pays a forfeit and is counted out then there thera Is the play of twos a and n d threes the company ta is groupe grouped d in twos and threes usually only on one I 1 odd one and the tun fun consists in no not t being caught as the third this keeps each child looking over her shoulder for or when two are behind the foremost moll t must slip away and find another place to be tapped after a standup stand up game a rather fu tunny nil y game where all the company may sit fit Is to have have ono person cb chosen age n to call and the rest to repeat on one 0 good fat at hen two ducks three plump partridges four squawking wild glaese g becse div alve fe felicitous Ilc itous oysters six elx pairs of roman homan striped hose seven thousand spanish anish soldiers eight cages of paro nine sympathetic apathetic didactic propositions ions eleven superstitious a tr no mers mera viewing venus in venice r t twelve Euro european pears dancing masters teaching egyptian mummies to dance at hercules wedding it any one laughs in the course of this ho he must pay a forfeit the one who repeats most smoothly and solemnly must be the caller out and begin gibberish over again |
