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CHUCK-HOLE—CLICK 69
her once at eleven years old at ' Chuck-farthing' among the boys."
Chuck-hole, Chuck-penny
Same game as " Chuck-farthing," with this difference, that if the pennies roll outside the ring it is a "dead heat," and each boy reclaims his penny.—Peacock's Mauley and Corring-ham Glossary; and see Brogden's Lincolnshire Words.
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Chucks
A game with marbles played by girls (Mactaggart's Gallo-vidian Encyclopedia). A writer in Blackwood)s Magazine, August 1821, p. 36, says "Chucks'' is played with a bowl and chucks—a species of shells (Bnccinum lapillus) found on the sea-shore [" bowl" here probably means a marble]. Brockett (North Country Words) says this game is played by girls with five sea-shells called chucks, and sometimes with pebbles, called chuckie-stanes. Jamieson says a number of pebbles are spread on a flat stone; one of them is tossed up, and a certain number must be gathered and the falling one caught by the same hand.
See " Checkstones," " Fivestones."
Church and Mice
A game played in Fifeshire; said to be the same with the " Sow in the Kirk."—Jamieson.
Click
Two Homes opposite each other are selected, and a boy either volunteers to go Click, or the last one in a race between the Homes does so. The others then proceed to one of the Homes, and the boy takes up his position between them. The players then attempt to run between the Homes, and if the one in the middle holds any of them while he says " One, two, three, I catch thee; help me catch another," they have to stay and help him to collar the rest until only one is left. If this one succeeds in getting between the Homes three times after all the others have been caught, he is allowed to choose the one to go Click |
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