The Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland
& Ireland In Dictionary Form - Volume 1

With Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations.

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	DINAH—DISH-ALOOF	97
	Glossary of Berkshire Words). Holloway's Dictionary says five of these bones are used by boys, with which they play a game called " Dibs " in West Sussex. See u Check-stones," " Fivestones," " Hucklebones."
	No one in the house but Dinah, Dinah, No one in the house I know, I know; No one in the house but Dinah, Dinah, Playing on the old banjo. A ring is formed, and a girl stands blindfolded inside. As the verse is sung and finished, Dinah goes to any one in the ring, and, if successful in guessing her name, takes her place, the other taking the place of Dinah, the game going on as before.—Earls Heaton (Herbert Hardy). " Dinah " was a Christy Minstrel song in the u fifties." It is probable that the game, which resembles " Buff," has been played to the tune of the song. Singing a chorus would soon follow. See "Buff," "Muffin Man." Dip o' the Kit A rustic game, undescribed and marked as obsolescent.— Peacock's Manley and Corringham Glossary. Dish-a-loof A singular rustic amusement. One lays his hand down on a table, another clashes his upon it, a third his on that, and so on (fig. i). When all the players have done this, the one who has his hand on the board pulls it out and lays it on the one uppermost (fig. 2): they all follow in rotation, and so a con­tinual clashing and dashing is kept up; hence the name " Dish." Those who win the game are those who stand out VOL. I.                                                                                     G