Cups and Saucers

Cups and saucers, / Plates and dishes…

ChantsLong rope

Cups and saucers,
Plates and dishes,
My old man wears
Calico breeches.

How to play

A rhyme to time the jumps.

Where this rhyme comes from

Printed: 1898
Where: London

We have copied these words exactly as they were printed in 1898, spelling and all. The book marks it as a skipping rhyme.

Source: Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, vol. II (London: David Nutt, 1898), 'Skipping', pp. 200–204. Rhymes collected by Miss Chase (public domain).

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