Children clasp their hands under their knees in a sitting posture, and jump thus about the room. The one who keeps up longest wins the game.—Dublin (Mrs. Lincoln). (_b_) In _Notes and Queries_, x. 17, “E. D.” says this amusement was fashionable sixty years ago, and from the low dresses worn then by ladies he mentions its indecency. He gives extracts from a satire called _Cutchacutchoo, or the Jostling of the Innocents_, 2nd ed., Dublin, in which the game and position are mentioned— Now she with tone tremendous cries Cutchacutchoo. Let each squat down upon her ham, Jump like a goat, puck like a ram. “Uneda,” at same reference (x. 17), speaks of it as a known game in Philadelphia. The analogy which this game has to some savage dances is curious; a correspondent in _Notes and Queries_, ix. 304, draws attention to the illustration, in Richardson’s _Expedition to Arctic Shores_ (vol. i. p. 397), of a dance by the “Kutchin-Kutcha” Indians, a parallel to the name as well as the dance which needs some research in America. See “Curcuddie,” “Hop-frog.” Cutters and Trucklers A remembrance of the old smuggling days. The boys divide into two parties; the Trucklers try to reach some given point before the Cutter catches them.—Cornwall (_Folk-lore Journal_, v. 60). Dab Dab a prin in my lottery book; Dab ane, dab twa, dab a’ your prins awa’. A game in which a pin is put at random in a school-book, between the leaves of which little pictures are placed. The successful adventurer is the person who puts the pin between two leaves including a picture which is the prize, and the pin itself is the forfeit (_Blackwood’s Magazine_, Aug. 1821, p. 36). This was a general school game in West London in 1860-1866 (G. L. Gomme). Dab-an-thricker A game in which the _dab_ (a wooden ball) is caused to spring upwards by a blow on the _thricker_ (trigger), and is struck by a flat, bottle-shaped mallet fixed to the end of a flexible wand, the distance it goes counting so many for the striker.—Ross and Stead’s _Holderness Glossary_. This is the same as “Knur and Spell.” Dab-at-the-hole A game at marbles (undescribed).—Patterson’s _Antrim and Down Glossary_. Dalies A child’s game, played with small bones or pieces of hard wood. The _dalies_ were properly sheep’s trotters.—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. Evidently the same game as “Fivestones” and “Hucklebones.” Davie-drap Children amuse themselves on the braesides i’ the sun, playing at “Hide and Seek” with this little flower, accompanying always the hiding of it with this rhyme, marking out the circle in which it is hid with the forefinger:— Athin the bounds o’ this I hap, My black and bonny davie-drap; Wha is here the cunning yin My davie-drap to me will fin. —Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_. The davie-drap is a little black-topped field-flower. Deadily A school game, not described.—Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_. Diamond Ring