A writer in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, August 1821, p. 36, says: The boys attempt to drive with curved sticks a ball, or what is more common, part of the vertebral bone of a sheep, in opposite directions. When the object driven along reaches the appointed place in either termination, the cry of hail! stops the play till it is knocked off anew by the boy who was so fortunate as to drive it past the gog. In the Sheffield district it is played as described by Halliwell. During the game the boys call out, “Hun you, shin you.” It is called Shinny in Derbyshire.—Addy’s _Sheffield Glossary_. Halliwell’s description does not materially differ from the account given above except that when the knur is down over the line it is called a “bye.”—(_Dictionary_). In _Notes and Queries_, 8th series, viii. 446; ix. 115 _et seq._, the game is described as played in Lincolnshire under the name of “Cabsow,” which perhaps accounts for the Barnes game of Crab-sowl. In Perthshire it is described as a game in which bats somewhat resembling a golf club are used. At every fair or meeting of the country people there were contests at racing, wrestling, putting the stone, &c., and on holidays all the males of a district, young and old, met to play at football, but oftener at shinty.—_Perthshire Statistical Account_, v. 72; Jamieson’s description is the same. Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_ says: A game described by Scotch writers by the name of Shintie; the shins, or under parts of the legs, are in danger during the game of being struck, hence the name from shin.—Dickinson, _Cumberland Glossary_, mentions Shinny as a boyish game, also called Scabskew, catty; it is also the name of the crook-ended stick used in the game. Patterson, _Antrim and Down Glossary_, under name Shinney, says, This game is played with shinneys, _i.e._, hooked sticks, and a ball or small block of wood called the “Golley,” or “Nag.” In London this game is called Hockey. It seems to be the same which is designed _Not_ in Gloucestershire; the name being borrowed from the ball, which is made of a knotty piece of wood.—Grose’s _Glossary_. It has been said that Shinty and Hockey differ in this respect, that in the latter two goals are erected, each being formed by a piece of stick with both ends stuck in the ground. The players divide into two parties; to each of these the care of one of the goals belongs. The game consists in endeavouring to drive the ball through the goal of the opposite party.—_Book of Sports_ (1810), pp. 11-13. But in Shinty there are also two goals, called hails; the object of each party being to drive the ball beyond their own hail, but there is no hole through which it must be driven. The ball, or knot of wood, is called Shintie. See “Bandy,” “Camp,” “Chinnup,” “Crab-sowl,” “Doddart,” “Hockey,” “Scrush.” Ship