When they came to the “heigh-ho” a more energetic push than usual was given to the occupant of the swing, who was then expected to vacate the swing and allow another child a turn. Thus the rhyme served as an allowance of time to each child. An amusement of boys in Galloway is described as on the slack rope, riding and shoving one another on the curve of the rope: they recite this to the swings— Shuggie show, druggie draw, Haud the grip, ye canna fa’; Haud the grup or down ye come, And danceth on your braid bum. —Mactaggart’s _Gallovidian Encyclopædia_. Brockett (_North Country Words_) describes as a swing: a long rope fastened at each end, and thrown over a beam, on which young persons seat themselves and are swung backwards and forwards in the manner of a pendulum. See “Merritot.” Tait The Dorset game of “See-saw.”—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. Teesty-Tosty The blossoms of cowslips collected together tied in a globular form, and used to toss to and fro for an amusement called “Teesty-Tosty,” or simply sometimes “Tosty.”—Somerset (Holloway’s _Dict. of Provincialisms_). A writer in _Byegones_ for July 1890, p. 142, says, “Tuswball” means a bunch. He gives the following rhyme, used when tossing the ball:— Tuswball, tuswball, tell unto me What my sweetheart’s name shall be. Then repeating letters of the alphabet until the ball falls, and the letter last called will indicate the sweetheart’s name. See “Ball,” “Shuttlefeather,” “Trip Trout.” Teter-cum-Tawter The East Anglian game of “See-saw.”—Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. Tee-to-tum. See “Totum.” Thimble Ring I come with my ringle jingles Under my lady’s apron strings. First comes summer, and then comes May, The queen’s to be married on midsummer day. Here she sits and here she stands, As fair as a lily, as white as a swan; A pair of green gloves to draw on her hands, As ladies wear in Cumberland. I’ve brought you three letters, so pray you read one, I can’t read one unless I read all, So pray, Miss Nancy, deliver them all. —Sheffield (S. O. Addy). A number of young men and women form themselves into an oval ring, and one stands in the centre. A thimble is given to one of those who form the ring, and it is passed round from one to another, so that nobody knows who has it. Then the one who stands in the centre goes to the man at the top of the oval ring and says, “My lady’s lost her gold ring. Have you got it?” He answers “Me, sir? no, sir.” The one in the middle says, “I think you lie, sir, but tell me who has got it.” Then he points out the one who has the thimble, of which he takes possession, and then says the above lines. Then the one who was found to have had the thimble takes the place of the one inside the ring, and the game is repeated. Halliwell gives a version of this game under the name of Diamond Ring (_Nursery Rhymes_, p. 223), but the words used consist only of the following lines:—