Halliwell gives these references in his _Dictionary_; Addy, _Sheffield Glossary_, describes it as above; adding, “An old game once played by people of fashion.” See “Penny Cast.” Penny Stanes See “Penny Cast.” Phœbe The name of a dance mentioned in an old nursery rhyme. A correspondent gave Halliwell the following lines of a very old song, the only ones he recollected:— Cannot you dance the Phœbe? Don’t you see what pains I take; Don’t you see how my shoulders shake? Cannot you dance the Phœbe? —Halliwell’s _Dictionary_. These words are somewhat of the same character as those of “Auntie Loomie,” and are evidently the accompaniment of an old dance. See “Lubin.” Pick and Hotch The game of “Pitch and Toss.”—Brogden’s _Provincial Words_, Lincolnshire. It is called Pickenhotch in Peacock’s _Manley and Corringham Glossary_. Pi-cow A game in which one half of the players are supposed to keep a castle, while the others go out as a foraging or marauding party. When the latter are all gone out, one of them cries _Pee-ku_, which is a signal to those within to be on the alert. Then those who are without attempt to get in. If any one of them gets in without being seized by the holders of the castle, he cries to his companions, _The hole’s won_; and those who are within must yield the fortress. If one of the assailants be taken before getting in he is obliged to change sides and to guard the castle. Sometimes the guards are successful in making prisoners of all the assailants. Also the name given to the game of Hide and Seek.—Jamieson. Pigeon Walk A boy’s game [undescribed].—Patterson’s _Antrim and Down Glossary_. Pig-ring A game at marbles where a ring is made about four feet in diameter, and boys “shoot” in turn from any point in the circumference, keeping such marbles as they may knock out of the ring, but loosing their own “taw” if it should stop within.—Lowsley’s _Berkshire Glossary_. See “Ring Taw.” Pillie-Winkie A sport among children in Fife. An egg, an unfledged bird, or a whole nest is placed on a convenient spot. He who has what is called the first _pill_, retires a few paces, and being provided with a cowt or rung, is blindfolded, or gives his promise to wink hard (whence he is called _Winkie_), and moves forward in the direction of the object, as he supposes, striking the ground with the stick all the way. He must not shuffle the stick along the ground, but always strike perpendicularly. If he touches the nest without destroying it, or the egg without breaking it, he loses his vice or turn. The same mode is observed by those who succeed him. When one of the party breaks an egg he is entitled to all the rest as his property, or to some other reward that has been previously agreed on. Every art is employed, without removing the nest or egg, to mislead the blindfolded player, who is also called the Pinkie.—Jamieson. See “Blind Man’s Stan.” Pinch