_cobby house_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/14031

cobby house Children's Games When I used to play at housekeeping with girls my own age, about 8-15 years ago, we used to call it "_cobby-house_", or simply "cobby." We would collect old dishes and utensils from our parents and set up a cobby-house among some flat rocks, or sometimes in a barn, or a [reverse] little house constructed for that purpose. If we were fortunate enough to have a little house, we made curtains for the window and procured chairs, or improvised benches and table, to make it look authentic. We generally, whether indoors or out, divided our house mentally, into kitchen, bedroom, and living room areas. We made soup from water and various leaves and weeds, cakes from mud baked in the sun and decorated with flour petals, and even cookies. We sent the "father" off to work and gave him quite an earful if he came home "too early, it's not dinner-time yet!", and went through all the motions of cooking, clearing, eating, and sleeping. DNE-cit JAN 10 1967 DICT CEN. APR 1971 JH JAN 10 1967 67/21-22 Used I Used I Not Used cob, cobs, coopy house, copy (house), COOPY, COPY v, ~ hole, ~ house Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 10 Jun 2016, Reverse side of card at C_14665, NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY, [check] beside collected by