We played the game when children usually at Christmas time. The players sat round a table. A pool was made, each player putting in the same amount of stakes, either pins, counters, nuts, or money. One player collected the pool and then spun the tee-totum by his fingers. Whichever letter was uppermost when it stopped, the player had to obey. T, was take all (the contents of the pool). H, half the contents. N, nothing. P, to put into the pool the same amount as the stakes were at first. When this was done the next player spun the totum in his turn. When one player got T a fresh pool had to be collected.—London (A. B. Gomme). Jamieson’s _Dictionary_ says children lay up stores of pins to play at this game at Christmas time. William Dunbar, the Scottish poet (James IV.), seems to refer to this game in the poem, _Schir, ȝit remembir as of befoir_, in the words— “He playis with _totum_, and I with _nichell_” (l. 74). Strutt (_Sports and Pastimes_, page 385) says the four sides were marked with letters, and describes the game as we now play it in London. All tee-totums or whirligigs seem to have some reference to tops, except that the tee-totum is used principally for gambling. Some have numbers on their sides like dice instead of letters, and some are of octagonal shape. See “Lang Larence,” “Scop-peril,” “Tops.” Touch One player is chosen “he.” He then runs amidst the other players and tries to touch one, who then becomes “Tig” or “Touch” in turn. See “Ticky Touchwood,” “Tig.” Tower of London The Tower is formed by a circle of children, two of whom constitute the gate. These two join hands, and raise or lower their arm to open or shut the gate. The Tower is summoned to open its gates to admit “King George and all his merry men,” how represented I can’t remember; but I know that at one point there is a chase, and the prisoner is caught and brought before the king, when there ensues a scrap of dialogue in song (Mrs. Harley). See “How many miles to Babylon,” “King of the Barbarie.” Town Lovers There is a girl of our town, She often wears a flowered gown; Tommy loves her night and day, And Richard when he may, And Johnny when he can; I think Sam will be the man! —Halliwell’s _Nursery Rhymes_, pp. 217-218. A girl is placed in the middle of a ring and says the lines, the names being altered to suit the players. She points to each one named, and at the last line the one selected immediately runs away; if the girl catches him he pays a forfeit, or the game is commenced again, the boy being placed in the middle. Trades