Chippings, or Cheapings.
[See “[Tops],” vol. ii. pp. 299-303.]
A game with peg tops played by two or more boys. A large button, from which the shank has been removed, or a round piece of lead about the size of a penny, is placed on the ground between two agreed goals. The players divide into sides, each side tries to send the button to different goals, the tops are spun in the usual way, and then taken up on the hand while spinning, and allowed to revolve once round the palm of the hand, and then thrown on the ground on the button in such a way that the button is projected some distance along the ground. Then a boy on the opposite side spins his top and tries to hit the button in the opposite direction. This is continued alternately until one or other side succeeds in getting the button to the goal.—London Streets (A. B. Gomme).
Chucks.
[[Vol. i. p. 69]; also “[Five-stones],” pp. 122-129, “[Huckle-bones],” pp. 239-240.]
A rhyme repeated while playing at “Chucks” with five small stones, lifting one each time.
Sweep the floor, lift a chair,
Sweep below it, and lay it down.
Cream the milk, cream the milk,
Quick, quick, quick,
Spread a piece and butter on it thick, thick, thick.
—Perth (Rev. Dr. Gregor).
Churning.
Churn the butter-milk, quick, quick, quick,
I owe my mother a pint of milk.