This game appears to indicate a lottery, and might originally have had something to do with allotting pieces of land or other property to prospective owners under the ancient common field system. The places when taken by one player not being available for another, and the fact of it being known as played on the ground, and not on slates, are both significant indications of the suggested origin. The method of allotting lands by lottery is described in Gomme’s _Village Community_. Mr. Newell, _Games_, p. 140, records a similar game called “Wheel of Fortune.” Tods and Lambs A game played on a perforated board with wooden pins.—Jamieson. The Editor adds that the game is materially the same as the English “Fox and Geese.” See “Fox and Geese” (2). Tom Tiddler’s Ground [Music] —Liverpool (Mrs. Harley). A line is drawn on the ground, one player stands behind it. The piece so protected is “Tom Tiddler’s ground.” The other players stand in a row on the other side. The row breaks and the children run over, calling out, “Here we are on Tom Tiddler’s ground, picking up gold and silver.” Tom Tiddler catches them, and as they are caught they stand on one side. The last out becomes Tom Tiddler.—Monton, Lancashire (Miss Dendy). Tom Tiddler’s Ground is played at Chirbury under the name of “Boney” = Bonaparte! one boy taking possession of a certain area, and the others trespassing on it, saying, “I am on Boney’s ground.” If they are caught there, they are put “in prison” till released by a touch from a comrade.—Chirbury (_Shropshire Folk-lore_, p. 523-524). I’m on Tom Tinker’s ground, I’m on Tom Tinker’s ground, I’m on Tom Tinker’s ground, Picking up gold and silver. —Derbyshire (_Folk-lore Journal_, i. 386). Northall (_Folk Rhymes_) gives the following lines, and describes it as played as above, except that Tom Tinder is provided with a knotted handkerchief, with which he buffets any one caught on his property:— Here we are on Tom Tinder’s ground, Picking up gold and silver; You pick weeds, and I’ll pick seeds, And we’ll all pick carraway comfits. In the Liverpool district the game is called “Old Daddy Bunchey” (Mrs. Harley), and in Norfolk “Pussey’s Ground” (Miss Matthews). It is also mentioned by Lowsley (_Berkshire Glossary_). Tops The special games now played with tops are mentioned under their respective titles, but the general allusions to the ancient whipping-tops are important enough to note.