Classic Poem

“H ORNIE Holes ” is a boys' game in which four play, a principal and assistant on either side. A stands with his assistant at one hole, and throws what is called a “cat” (a piece of stick, or a sheep's horn), with the design of making it alight into another hole at some distance, at which B stands, with his assistant, to drive it aside with his rod resembling a walking-stick. The following unintelligible rhyme is repeated by a player on the one side, while they on the other are gathering in the “cats.” This is attested by old people as of great antiquity:—
 Jock, Speak, and Sandy,
  Wi' a' their lousie train,
 Round about by Edinbro',
  Will never meet again.
 Gae head 'im, gae hang 'im,
  Gae lay him in the sea;
 A' the birds o' the air
  Will bear 'im companie.
With a nig-nag, widdy—(or worry) bag,
And an e'endown trail, trail,
Quo' he.