97. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 125, "My Lady's lost her diamond ring."--_Low-German_ formulas exactly correspond to our "Hold fast what I give you." Thus the North Frisian, "Biwari wel, wat ik di du," Handelmann, p. 38. Corresponding to "Button, button, who's got the button?" is the _Italian_ "Anello, anello, chi ha mi anello?" Gianandrea, No. 14.--_Spanish_, Maspons y Labrós, p. 86. 98. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 133. 99. _German_, Frischbier, p. 195. 100. A universal game. 101. Halliwell, Nurs. Rh., Nos. 328, 357; Pop. Rh., p. 118; Chambers, p. 123, "The King and Queen of Cantelon."--_German_, Rochholz, p. 414, No. 32. 102. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 132, "The Old Dame," like our B. The Scotch of Chambers, p. 130, "Gled Wylie" (wily hawk) corresponds to our first version.--_German_, Mullenhoff, p. 488; Handelmann, p. 76, etc.--_Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii. 164.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 34, No. 40, here a game of a witch like our second version.--_Finnish_, Neus, p. 418, begins like the Scotch.--_Russian_, Bezsonoff, p. 195, probably borrowed from the German. 103. The name, "Tag," in Gent.'s Mag., Feb. 1738.--_German_, Handelmann, p. 66, "Eisen anfassen;" "Eisenzech" in Berlin; "Eisenziggi" in Switzerland.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 62, "Toca fero."--"Squat-tag" is also _Spanish_, Maspons y Labrós, p. 81. 105. _Ancient Greek_, Pollux, ix. 117, #Apodidraskinda#, "Game of Running Away."--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 89, "Verstecherlspiel," "Einschauen."--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 61, "Chi se vede, eh!"--_French_, Celnart, p. 55, "Cligne-musette" or "Cache-cache." 106. _French_, Chabreul, p. 1, "La Queue Leuleu," mentioned by Froissart.--_German_, Rochholz, p. 408, etc.; Schuster, p. 392, a game of wolf and geese; so _Russian_, Bezsonoff, p. 205. 107. _Spanish_, Marin, i. 169. The seeker must wait until the hiders, who go off one by one as they are counted out, cry "Jilo bianco, jilo negro," etc. Hence, probably, the cry "Blancalilo," etc., of the English game. The rest proceeds like No. 105. In the Spanish sport, a player reaching goal must spit three times; this seems to have been originally a conjuration against the Evil Spirit, whom the seeker represented. 108. _Ancient Greek_, Pollux, ix. 113, 123. The game is universal. See Handelmann, p. 71. Child, Eng. and Scot. Pop. Bal., 1882, i. 67. 109. _German_, Handelmann, p. 65, "Die Hexe." The games are identical; yet the children, from whom the version in the text was learned, imagined that they had "made it up!"