Jamieson (_Dictionary_) says, “To do ‘Dingle-dousie,’ a stick is ignited at one end and given as a plaything to a child.” Elworthy (_West Somerset Words_) does not give this as a game, but says a burning stick was whirled round and round very quickly, so as to keep up the appearance of a ribbon of fire. Miss Burne (_Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 530), says, “Children wave a burning stick in the air, saying— A girdle o’ gold, a saddle o’ silk, A horse for me as white as milk, an evident relic of divinations or incantations practised with bonfires.” Halliwell (_Nursery Rhymes_, p. 213) gives the rhyme as— Jack’s alive, and in very good health, If he dies in your hand you must look to yourself; the game being played in the same way as the Sheffield version (see also Halliwell’s _Dictionary_ and Moor’s _Suffolk Words_). (_b_) This is a very significant game, and its similarity in miniature to the old tribal custom of carrying the fiery cross to rouse the clans at once suggests the possible origin of it. The detention of the fiery cross through neglect or other impediment was regarded with much dread by the inhabitants of the place in which it should occur. This subject is discussed in _Gomme’s Primitive Folkmoots_, p. 279 _et seq._ Jack, Jack, the Bread’s a-burning Jack, Jack, the bread’s a-burning, All to a cinder; If you don’t come and fetch it out We’ll throw it through the winder. These lines are chanted by players that stand thus. One places his back against a wall, tree, &c., grasping another, whose back is toward him, round the waist; the second grasps a third, and so on. The player called Jack walks apart until the conclusion of the lines. Then he goes to the others and pokes at or pats them, saying, “I don’t think you’re done yet,” and walks away again. The chant is repeated, and when he is satisfied that the bread is “done” he endeavours to pull the foremost from the grasp of the others, &c.—Warwickshire (Northall’s _Folk Rhymes_, p. 390). See “Mother Mop.” Jack upon the Mopstick See “Bung the Bucket.” Jackysteauns A game among school-girls, played with small pebbles, and sometimes with plum or cherry stones (Dickinson’s _Cumberland Glossary_). “A children’s game, played with five white pebbles called Jackstones,” says Mr. Patterson (_Antrim and Down Glossary_). The game is called “Jack.” See “Fivestones,” “Hucklebones.” Jauping Paste-eggs A youthful amusement in Newcastle and the neighbourhood at Easter. One boy, holding an egg in his hand, challenges another to give blow for blow. One of the eggs is sure to be fractured in the conflict, and its shattered remains become the spoil of the conqueror. See “Conkers.” Jenny Jones [Music] —Platt, near Wrotham, Kent (Miss Burne). [Music] —Northants (Rev. W. D. Sweeting). [Music] —Belfast (W. H. Patterson).