A game among young people in running up the face or cut part of a hay-stack to try who can put in a stick the highest.—Brockett’s _North Country Words_. Sticky Toffey Name of a game (undescribed) recorded by the Rev. S. D. Headlam, as played by Hoxton School children at Hoxton.—_Church Reformer_, 1894. Stiff Police A game (undescribed) recorded by the Rev. S. D. Headlam, as played by Hoxton School children.—_Church Reformer_, 1894. Stik-n Snael (Stick and Snell) Game of cat.—Elworthy, _West Somerset Words_. The short stick, pointed at both ends, is called a snell. Stocks A schoolboys’ game. Two boys pick a side, and there is one den only, and they toss to see which side shall keep it. The side which wins the toss then goes out, and when two boys have got a good distance off they cry “Stocks.” The boys who keep the den run after them to catch them. When one is caught his capturer counts ten while he holds him (in a more primitive but less refined state, spat over his head) and cries _Stocks_. This prisoner is taken into the den. If they are all caught the other side turns out. But if one of the outer side can manage to run through the den and cry “Stocks,” all the prisoners are relieved, and can go out again.—Easther’s _Almondbury Glossary_. See “Stacks.” Stones A circle of stones is formed according to the number of players, generally five or seven each side. One of the out party stands in the centre of the circle, and lobs at the different stones in rotation; each hit a player gives all his side must change stations, in some places going round to the left and in others to the right. The stones are defended by the hand or a stick, according as a ball or stick is lobbed. All the players are out if the stone is hit, or the ball or stick caught, or one of the players is hit while running. In different counties or places these games are more or less modified.—Dublin, _Folk-lore Journal_, ii. 264-265. Mr. Kinahan, who describes this game, adds a very instructive note, which is worth quoting:— “These games I have seen played over half a century ago, with a lob-stick, but of later years with a ball, long before a cricket club existed, in Trinity College, Dublin, and when the game was quite unknown in a great part of Ireland. At the same time, they may have been introduced by some of the earlier settlers, and afterwards degenerated into the games mentioned above; but I would be inclined to suspect that the Irish are the primitive games, they having since been improved into cricket. At the present day these games nearly everywhere are succeeded by cricket, but often of a very primitive form, the wickets being stones set on end, or a pillar of stones; while the ball is often wooden, and very rudely formed.” Stool-ball