Easther’s _Almondbury Glossary_ thus describes this game. A set of checks consists of five cubes, each about half an inch at the edge, and a ball the size of a moderate bagatelle ball: all made of pot. They are called checkstones, and the game is played thus. You throw down the cubes all at once, then toss the ball, and during its being in the air gather up one stone in your right hand and catch the descending ball in the same. Put down the stone and repeat the operation, gathering two stones, then three, then four, till at last you have “summed up” all the five at once, and have succeeded in catching the ball. In case of failure you have to begin all over again. (_b_) In Nashe’s _Lenten Stuff_ (1599) occurs the following: “Yet towards cock-crowing she caught a little slumber, and then she dreamed that Leander and she were playing at checkstone with pearls in the bottom of the sea.” A game played by children with round small pebbles (Halliwell’s _Dictionary_). It is also mentioned in the early play of _Apollo Shroving_, 1627, p. 49. See “Chucks,” “Fivestones.” Cherry Odds A game of “Pitch and Toss” played with cherry-stones (Elworthy’s _West Somerset Words_). Boys always speak of the stones as “ods.” Cherry-pit “Cherry-pit” is a play wherein they pitch cherry-stones into a little hole. It is noticed in the _Pleasant Grove of New Fancies_, 1657, and in Herrick’s _Hesperides_. Nares (_Glossary_) mentions it as still practised with leaden counters called Dumps, or with money. Chicamy Chicamy, chickamy, chimey O, Down to the pond to wash their feet; Bring them back to have some meat, Chickamy, chickamy, chimey O. —Crockham Hill, Kent (Miss Chase). The children sing the first line as they go round and round. At the second line they move down the road a little, and turn round and round as they end the rhyme. Chickidy Hand Chickidy hand, Chickidy hand, The Warner, my Cock, Crows at four in the morning. Several boys, placing their clasped fists against a lamp-post, say these lines, after which they run out, hands still clasped. One in the middle tries to catch as many as possible, forming them in a long string, hand in hand, as they are caught. Those still free try to break through the line and rescue the prisoners. If they succeed in parting the line, they may carry one boy pig-a-back to the lamp-post, who becomes “safe.” The boy caught last but one becomes “it” in the next game.—Deptford, Kent (Miss Chase). See “Hunt the Staigie,” “Stag Warning,” “Whiddy.” Chinnup A game played with hooked sticks and a ball, also called “Shinnup.” Same as “Hockey.” Chinny-mumps A school-boys’ play, consisting in striking the chin with the knuckles; dexterously performed, a kind of time is produced.—Addy’s _Sheffield Glossary_. Chock or Chock-hole