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 266 from Gorey to Trinnahely. There are also many other different names that record the game.

Jack-stones, played with three or fom- small stones that are thrown up in the air and caught again, seems to have been a very ancient game, as the stones have been found in the crannogs or lake-dwellings in some hole near the fire-places, similar to where they are found in a cabin at the present day. An old woman, or other player, at the present time, puts them in a place near the hob, when they stop their game, and go to do something else.

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THE FOLK-LORE OF DRAYTON.

PART II.—.—(Continued from page 235.)

Its work of love, everybody knows, on the evidence of the Babes in the Wood, is that of burying the dead:

as Drayton says elsewhere. I have a secondhand quotation from a play of Webster, who was for some years his contemporary: