 The hen is hung at a fellow's back, who has also some horse-bells about him ; the rest of the fellows are blinded, and have boughs in their hands, with which they chase this fellow and his hen about some large court or small enclosure. The fellow with...  The Literary panorama - Page 7311818Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William Hackwood - Sports - 1907 - 470 pages
...the rest of the fellows are blindfolded, and have boughs in their hands, with which they chase the fellow and his hen about some large court or small...can, they follow the sound, and sometimes hit him and his hen ; other times, if he can get behind one of them, they thresh one another well favouredly... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - England - 1910 - 568 pages
...fellow's back, who has also some horse-bells about him; the rest of the fellows are blinded, and have bows in their hands, with which they chase this fellow and his hen about some large covert or small enclosure. The fellow with the hen and bells shifting as well as he can, they follow... | |
 | Ronald Hutton - History - 1996 - 566 pages
...171o, had produced a different one: "The hen is hung at a fellow's back, who has also some horse-bells about him, the rest of the fellows are blinded, and...his hen about some large court or small enclosure . . . After this the hen is boiled with bacon'.47 In Sussex in the mid- nineteenth century the game... | |
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