The crow’s awake, the kite’s asleep, It’s time for my poor chickens To get a bit of something to eat— What time is it, old granny? —Kiltubbrid, Co. Leitrim (L. L. Duncan). Mr. Duncan says this game has almost died out, and the people were rather hazy about the words they used to say. Chippings, or Cheapings. [See “Tops,” vol. ii. pp. 299-303.] A game with peg tops played by two or more boys. A large button, from which the shank has been removed, or a round piece of lead about the size of a penny, is placed on the ground between two agreed goals. The players divide into sides, each side tries to send the button to different goals, the tops are spun in the usual way, and then taken up on the hand while spinning, and allowed to revolve once round the palm of the hand, and then thrown on the ground on the button in such a way that the button is projected some distance along the ground. Then a boy on the opposite side spins his top and tries to hit the button in the opposite direction. This is continued alternately until one or other side succeeds in getting the button to the goal.—London Streets (A. B. Gomme). Chucks. [Vol. i. p. 69; also “Five-stones,” pp. 122-129, “Huckle-bones,” pp. 239-240.] A rhyme repeated while playing at “Chucks” with five small stones, lifting one each time. Sweep the floor, lift a chair, Sweep below it, and lay it down. Cream the milk, cream the milk, Quick, quick, quick, Spread a piece and butter on it thick, thick, thick. —Perth (Rev. Dr. Gregor). Churning. Churn the butter-milk, quick, quick, quick, I owe my mother a pint of milk. This game used to be played on the shore, just as the tide went out, when the feet sank easily into the sand. The children turned half-way round as they repeated the words.—Isle of Man (A. W. Moore). Codham, or Cobhams. [“Tip it,” vol. ii. p. 292.] A game resembling “Tip it,” and a better form of the game. The parties are decided by a toss up. The object is passed from hand to hand under the table, until the leader of the opposite side calls out “up” or “rise.” When all the closed hands are on the table, the leader orders any hands off which he thinks do not contain the object. If the last hand left on the table contains the object the sides change places, if not the same sides repeat, twelve successful guesses making “game,” each failure counting one to the opposite side. The game is called “Up Jenkins” in the North of Scotland. The words have to be called out when the hands are called to show. Another name is “Cudlums;” this word was called out when the leader pointed to the hand which he believed held the object.—Bedford (Mrs. A. C. Haddon). Colley Ball. [“Monday,” vol. i. p. 389.]