Cockeldy bread, mistley cake, When you do that for our sake. While one of the party so laid down, the rest sat around; and they laid down and rolled in this manner by turns. These lines are still retained in the modern nursery-rhyme books, but their connection with the game of “Cockeldy-bread” is by no means generally understood. There was formerly some kind of bread called “cockle-bread,” and _cocille-mele_ is mentioned in a very early MS. quoted in Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. In Peele’s play of the _Old Wives’ Tale_, a voice thus speaks from the bottom of a well:— Gently dip, but not too deep, For fear you make the golden beard to weep. Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me smooth and comb my head, And thou shalt have some _cockell-bread_. Cockly-jock A game among boys. Stones are loosely placed one upon another, at which other stones are thrown to knock the pile down.—Dickinson’s _Cumberland Glossary_. See “Castles.” Cock’s-headling A game where boys mount over each other’s heads.—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. See “Cockertie-hooie.” Cock-steddling A boyish game mentioned but not described by Cope in his _Hampshire Glossary_. He gives as authority _Portsmouth Telegraph_, 27th September 1873. Codlings A game among youngsters similar to “Cricket,” a short piece of wood being struck up by a long stick instead of a ball by a bat. Also called “Tip and Go” or “Tip and Slash.”—Robinson’s _Whitby Glossary_. See “Cudgel.” Cogger A striped snail shell. It is a common boyish pastime to hold one of these shells between the last joints of the bent fingers, and forcibly press the apex against another held in a similar manner by an opponent, until one of them, by dint of persevering pressure, forces its way into the other; and the one which in these contests has gained the most victories is termed the Conqueror, and is highly valued (Northamptonshire, Baker’s _Glossary_). The game is known as “Fighting Cocks” in Evans’ _Leicestershire Glossary_. In London it was played with walnut shells. Cogs The top stone of a pile is pelted by a stone flung from a given distance, and the more hits, or “cogglings off,” the greater the player’s score.—Robinson’s _Whitby Glossary_. Apparently the same game as “Cockly-jock.” Common A game played with a ball and crooked stick (cut from a tree or hedge), with a crook at the end (same game as “Hurl”).—Dublin (Mrs. Lincoln). Mr. Patterson (_Antrim and Down Glossary_) mentions this as “Hockey;” the same as “Shinney.” “Called in some districts,” he adds, “‘Comun’ and ‘Kamman,’ from the Irish name for the game.” Conkers The same game as “Cogger.” The game is more generally called “playin at sneel-shells.”—Ross and Stead’s _Holderness Glossary_. Conquerors or Conkers I. Cobbly co! My first blow! Put down your black hat, And let me have first smack! —Burne’s _Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 531.