About twenty years ago the game was common in some parts of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, where it was sometimes called “Chevy Chase.”—_Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 233. See “Chickidy Hand,” “Hunt the Staigie,” “King Cæsar,” “Whiddy.” Lang Larence That is, “Long Lawrence,” an instrument marked with signs, a sort of teetotum. A “Long Lawrence” is about three inches long, something like a short ruler with eight sides; occasionally they have but four. On one side are ten x’s, or crosses, forming a kind of lattice-work; on the next, to the left, three double cuts, or strokes, passing straight across in the direction of the breadth; on the third, a zig-zag of three strokes one way, and two or three the other, forming a W, with an additional stroke or a triple V; on the fourth, three single bars, one at each end and one in the middle, as in No. 2, where they are doubled; then the four devices are repeated in the same order. The game, formerly popular at Christmas, can be played by any number of persons. Each has a bank of pins or other small matters. A pool is formed; then in turn each rolls the “Long Lawrence.” If No. 1 comes up the player cries “Flush,” and takes the pool; if No. 2, he puts down two pins; if No. 3, he says “Lave all,” and neither takes nor gives; if No. 4, he picks up one. The sides are considered to bear the names, “Flush,” “Put doan two,” “Lave all,” “Sam up one.” It has been suggested that the name “Lawrence” may have arisen from the marks scored on the instrument, not unlike the bars of a gridiron, on which the saint perished.—_Easthers’s Almondbury Glossary._ See “Teetotum.” Leap Candle The young girls in and about Oxford have a sport called “Leap Candle,” for which they set a candle in the middle of a room in a candlestick, and then draw up their coats into the form of breeches, and dance over the candle back and forth, saying the words— The taylor of Bicester he has but one eye, He cannot cut a pair of green galagaskins If he were to die. This sport, in other parts, is called “Dancing the Candlerush” (Aubrey’s _Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme_, p. 45). Halliwell (_Rhymes_, p. 65) has a rhyme— Jack be nimble, And Jack be quick, And Jack jump over The candlestick, which may refer to this game. Northall (_Folk Rhymes_, p. 412) says in Warwickshire a similar game is called “Cock and Breeches.” Leap-frog