Meantime the crowd outside is itching to begin the fight. With a kis all round for the women, the Lord and his men proceed into the street Near the church, the Fool is hoisted on to a wall and makes a comic speech, concluding with an exhorted tion to the crowd to play upright and downstreight, not to kill themselves nor one another: it is to be hose air hoose, toon again toon, if a man mee' a man knock a man doon—but don't hurt him.
This part of the speech, which is traditional, is commonly cut short some one lighting a sheet of new: paper immediately to the rear of the Fool's trousers, Upon this the players proceed to the top of the hill, above the village, Here in the midst of the open ploughed land from which the eye looks down upon a vast expanse of Fen country, the Lord places his Boggins in 100-yd. circle. Then seizing a hood, which consists of 7 tightly-fastened roll of sacking, about two feet long, he chants the formula:—
Hoos again hoos, Toon again toon, If a Man meet a man knock a Men doon But don't hurt him! and hurls it into the air In a moment the crowd is on it. each man striving to capture the hood and escape with it off the field. This is not so easy, for the Bozeins have been carefully placed and as soon as the hood is touched by one of them it has to be returned to the centre and thrown up again.
In the meantime three or four other ga KING KONG yr
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