Children’s Games
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Skeat, Walter William
dalam
biling
chhari
aku
within
chamber (=bilek?)
search for
me
10
11
12
ping
’dah
’ning
’dah
got
clear(?)
got
13
hilang.
disappear.
The meaning of this formula (as is the case with so many “nursery” rhymes) is very obscure, several words being unintelligible or at least doubtful. It is, however, the regular formula used for such games and is quite common.175
Chan chan siku rembat is a game which I saw played in Selangor as follows:—
The intending players stood in a row, looking straight in front of them, but with their hands behind their backs, whilst another boy, who had a piece of wood in his hand, walked down the line touching their hands and counting as he went the words of the following refrain:—
chan
chan
siku
rembat