(_b_) The children form a ring, joining hands, and dance round singing the two first lines. Then loosing hands, they waltz in couples, singing as a refrain the last line. The game is continued, different coloured ribbons being named each time. (_c_) This game was played in 1869, so cannot have arisen from the political movement. Baloon A game played with an inflated ball of strong leather, the ball being struck by the arm, which was defended by a bracer of wood.—Brand’s _Pop. Antiq._, ii. 394. (_b_) It is spelt “balloo” in Ben Jonson, iii. 216, and “baloome” in Randolph’s _Poems_, 1643, p. 105. It is also mentioned in Middleton’s _Works_, iv. 342, and by Donne. “’Tis ten a clock and past; all whom the mues, _Baloun_, tennis, diet, or the stews Had all the morning held.” —Donne’s _Poems_, p. 133. Toone (_Etymological Dict._) says it is a game rather for exercise than contention; it was well known and practised in England in the fourteenth century, and is mentioned as one of the sports of Prince Henry, son of James I., in 1610. Strutt (_Sports and Pastimes_, p. 96) gives two illustrations of what he considers to be baloon ball play, from fourteenth century MSS. Bandy-ball A game played with sticks called “bandies,” bent and round at one end, and a small wooden ball, which each party endeavours to drive to opposite fixed points. Northbrooke in 1577 mentions it as a favourite game in Devonshire (Halliwell’s _Dict. of Provincialisms_). Strutt says the bat-stick was called a “bandy” on account of its being bent, and gives a drawing from a fourteenth century MS. book of prayers belonging to Mr. Francis Douce (_Sports_, p. 102). The bats in this drawing are nearly identical with modern golf-sticks, and “Golf” seems to be derived from this game. Peacock mentions it in his _Glossary of Manley and Corringham Words_. Forby has an interesting note in his _Vocabulary of East Anglia_, i. 14. He says, “The bandy was made of very tough wood, or shod with metal, or with the point of the horn or the hoof of some animal. The ball is a knob or gnarl from the trunk of a tree, carefully formed into a globular shape. The adverse parties strive to beat it with their bandies through one or other of the goals.” Bandy Cad or Gad A game played with a nurr and crooked stick, also called “Shinty,” and much the same as the “Hockey” of the South of England. “Cad” is the same as “cat” in the game of “Tip-cat;” it simply means a cut piece of wood.—Nodal and Milner’s _Lancashire Glossary_. Bandy-hoshoe A game at ball common in Norfolk, and played in a similar manner to “Bandy” (Halliwell’s _Dictionary_). Toone (_Etymological Dictionary_) says it is also played in Suffolk, and in West Sussex is called “Hawky.” Bandy-wicket