Dr. Grosart, in noting this passage, says, “I rather think the game is still played by boys when they directly, or by rebound, endeavour to play their button or marble into a hole.” Strutt briefly notes the game as being similar to “Boss Out.”—_Sports_, p. 384. Halliwell (_Dictionary_) simply gives the quotation from Donne’s Poems, p. 131, mentioning the game. See “Boss Out.” Spang and Purley A mode resorted to by boys of measuring distances, particularly at the game of marbles. It means a space and something more.—Brockett’s _North Country Words_. Spangie A game played by boys with marbles or halfpence. A marble or halfpenny is struck against the wall. If the second player can bring his so near that of his antagonist as to include both within a _span_, he claims both as his.—Jamieson. This is the same game as “Banger,” “Boss Out.” Probably the Old English game of “Span Counter,” or “Span Farthing,” was originally the same.—See Johnson’s _Dictionary_. Spannims A game at marbles played in the eastern parts of England.—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. Spawnie The same game as “Spangie.”—Keith (Rev. W. Gregor). Spinny-Wye The name of a game among children at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I suspect this is nearly the same with “Hide and Seek.” “I spye” is the usual exclamation at a childish game called “Hie, spy, hie.”—Brand, ii. 442. Splints A game at marbles, in which they are dropped from the hand in heaps.—Easther’s _Almondbury Glossary_. Spurn point An old game (undescribed) mentioned in the play _Apollo Shroving_, London, 1627, p. 49. Spy-arm A game of Hide-and-Seek, with this difference, that when those are found who are hid the finder cries Spy-arm; and if the one discovered can catch the discoverer, he has a ride upon his back to the dools.—Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_. See “Hide and Seek” (1). Stacks