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82 CRICKET—CROSS-QUESTIONS |
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Cricket
A description of this game is not given here; its history and rules and regulations are well known, and many books have been devoted to its study. The word " Cricket " is given in Lawson's Upton-on-Severn Words and Phi'ases as a low wooden stool. He continues, "The game of 'Cricket' was probably a development of the older game of 'Stool-ball,' a dairymaid's stool being used for the wicket." Wedgwood (Etym. Diet.) suggests that the proper name for the bat was " cricket-staff," A.-S. criec, a staff.
See " Bittle-battle," "Stool-ball."
Crooky
An old game called " Crooky" was formerly played at Portarlington, Queen's co., and Kilkee, co. Clare. Fifty years ago it was played with wooden crooks and balls, but about twenty-five years ago, or a little more, mallets were introduced at Kilkee; while subsequently the name was changed to "Croquet." I have heard it stated that this game was introduced by the French refugees that settled at Portarlington. —G. H. Kinahan (Folk-lore Journal, ii. 265).
Cross and Pile
The game now called " Heads and Tails " (Halliwell's Dictionary). See Nomenclator, p. 299; Addy's Sheffield Glossary. Strutt points out that anciently the English coins were stamped on one side with a cross. See also Harland's La7icashire Legends, p. 139.
Cross-bars
A boys' game.—Halliwell's Dictionary.
Cross-questions
Nares (Glossary) mentions this game in a quotation from Wilson's Inconstant Lady, 1614. "Cross Questions and Crooked Answers" was a popular game at juvenile parties. The players sit in a circle, and each is asked in a whisper a question by the one on his left, and receives also in a whisper an answer to a question asked by himself of the person on his right. Each player must remember both the question he was |
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