The other morning my husband, out of the blue, just said ‘huckle, buckle, beanstalk” and the memories came rushing back! Don’t you just LOVE it when that happens? I haven’t heard those words since the 70’s! He told me how he used to play the game in elementary school and we both recalled the game rules. His teacher would hide an eraser then the class would search out the elusive object and the first one who found the eraser would shout out ‘huckle, buckle, beanstalk’ and be the winner! Wasn’t life so much simpler then? We really enjoyed this game I think mostly because it was so cool to say the words together ‘huckle, buckle, beanstalk’ … just makes you smile! There were other names for the same game which originated as far back as the 19th-century in England and America. Some include “Hide the Object”, “Hide the Key”, “Hunt the Thimble”, “Hide the Thimble”, and “Hot Buttered Beans”.
Thanks for the great memories and smiles my love … it made my day!
Enjoy L!