Or, dialectically, "Tickler's not at home."
This Eldorado has many different local names—Van Diemen's land in Connecticut; Dixie's land in New York, an expression which antedates the war; Judge Jeffrey's land, in Devonshire, England; Golden Pavement, in Philadelphia.
In the Southern States, "Tommy Tidler's Ground" is the name of the spot where the rainbow rests, and where it is supposed by children that a pot of gold is buried. A highly intelligent Georgian assures us that as a boy he has often searched for the treasure, but could never find the spot where the rainbow touched the ground.
"Tommy Tidler" represents the jealous fairy or dwarf who attacks any who approach his treasure.
No. 157.
Dixie's Land.
This is a variety of the last game, in which a monarch instead of a fairy is the owner of the ground trespassed upon. A line having been drawn, to bound "Dixie's Land," the players cross the frontier with the challenge:
On Dixie's land I'll take my stand,
And live and die in Dixie.
The king of Dixie's Land endeavors to seize an invader, whom he must hold long enough to repeat the words,
Ten times one are ten,
You are one of my men.