A game at marbles (undescribed).—Patterson’s Antrim and Down Glossary.
Dalies
A child’s game, played with small bones or pieces of hard wood. The dalies were properly sheep’s trotters.—Halliwell’s Dictionary.
Evidently the same game as “[Fivestones]” and “[Hucklebones].”
Davie-drap
Children amuse themselves on the braesides i’ the sun, playing at “[Hide and Seek]” with this little flower, accompanying always the hiding of it with this rhyme, marking out the circle in which it is hid with the forefinger:—
Athin the bounds o’ this I hap,
My black and bonny davie-drap;
Wha is here the cunning yin
My davie-drap to me will fin.
—Mactaggart’s Gallovidian Encyclopædia.
The davie-drap is a little black-topped field-flower.