Bob-Cherry
Attach a cherry to a piece of string, and then fasten it to a door, sufficiently high to compel the player to jump a little in order to catch the cherry in his mouth. The cherry is then set swinging; and the players, ranging themselves in line, jump at the cherry, one after the other. This game is productive of much amusement, and may be kept up for a long time. BUFF.
In this game one of the players enters the room, armed with a poker, with which he taps on the floor. "Where do you come from?" inquires one of the company. "Alas! from poor Buff, who is full of grief." "And what did he say to you?" "He spoke thus," is the reply-- "Buff said 'Baff,' And gave me this staff, And bade me not laugh Till I came to his house again."
Having thus spoken, the messenger leaves the room. While he has been delivering his speech, the company, however, endeavour to make him laugh, by asking him any absurd questions that may present themselves to their imagination. If they do not succeed in this, the emissary of the great Buff delivers himself of a more lengthy address:-- "Buff says 'Baff' to all his men, And I say 'Baff' to you again; But he neither laughs nor smiles In spite of all your cunning wiles, But keeps his face with a very good grace, And carries his staff to the very next place."