Do you know your post is among the first entries when I search "Bore a hole, bore a hole. Right through the sugar bowl!" This really must be a Boston thing. Half the things I say to my grandchildren their mother looks at me in confusion.
When I was a young child, my father would make a circle on my back with his finger and say "Bore a hole, bore a hole, right through the sugar bowl, and place it with a dot" He said it was a game played when he was a child growing up in Boston. He was born in 1927. Do you know the history of this game?
We played it in St. John's Newfoundland as part of the choosing of who was "it" when we were playing tag (which we called 'after').
One child would turn their back on the rest and be blindfolded.
Then another child would trace out a circle on the blindfolded child's back saying "Bore a hole, bore a hole right right through the sugar bowl, who will touch this here time?"
Then a third child would put their finger in the middle of that circle. If the blindfolded child could guess who the person was who had touched the circle, then that person was"it".
If they were incorrect then the blindfolded child was "it."
We may have learned this from some American children whose parents were stationed at Fort Pepperell in St. John's Newfoundland (now part of Canada)
Do you know your post is among the first entries when I search "Bore a hole, bore a hole. Right through the sugar bowl!" This really must be a Boston thing. Half the things I say to my grandchildren their mother looks at me in confusion.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a young child, my father would make a circle on my back with his finger and say "Bore a hole, bore a hole, right through the sugar bowl, and place it with a dot" He said it was a game played when he was a child growing up in Boston. He was born in 1927. Do you know the history of this game?
ReplyDeleteI was also born near Boston, 20 miles South in Rockland. We played bore a hole in the mid 40s and 50s.
ReplyDeleteWe played it in St. John's Newfoundland as part of the choosing of who was "it" when we were playing tag (which we called 'after').
ReplyDeleteOne child would turn their back on the rest and be blindfolded.
Then another child would trace out a circle on the blindfolded child's back saying "Bore a hole, bore a hole right right through the sugar bowl, who will touch this here time?"
Then a third child would put their finger in the middle of that circle. If the blindfolded child could guess who the person was who had touched the circle, then that person was"it".
If they were incorrect then the blindfolded child was "it."
We may have learned this from some American children whose parents were stationed at Fort Pepperell in St. John's Newfoundland (now part of Canada)