No. 139 Corner-Ball
This is also an old game kept up by the Pennsylvania Germans—Pennsylvania Dutch,111 as they are commonly called. Four players stand on the four angles of a square, and the four adversaries in the centre.
The ball is passed from one to another of the players in the corners, and finally thrown at the central players. For this purpose the following rhyme (which our readers may translate if they can) is used by the boy who aims the ball at the players in the centre. These last, if they can catch the ball, may fling it back.
Bŏla we Sols,
Butar we Schmŏls,
Pĕf’r gat uf,
War fongt schmeist druf.
If the player in the corner hits a central player, the latter is out, and vice versâ.
The last player of the losing party has to stand with his head against a wall till every antagonist has flung the ball at him.