Tiddlywinks Bibliography

"The Cricket Fetish" by Alfred Fellows

• Page 431: Some of them no doubt enjoy the pleasures of anticipation or successful achievement; but these are pleasures which can be enjoyed in an arm-chair at any time and in respect of any game, ping-pong, tiddley-winks, and hop-scotch included.

"Skating and Drinking"

• Page 15: In the fourth volume of Punch, published in 1843, is an amusing account of a visit to the so-called Glaciarium, in Baker-street, where the artificial ice was surrounded by an elaborate mise en scène of Alpine or Arctic—it is not very clear which—character; but perhaps the balance of evidence is in favour of the Alps, as the lake was approached from a species of Swiss châlet. Punch's contributor, who signed himself "Tiddledy Winks," was very funny at the expense of the forlorn institution, in which he found himself alone [...]

"Paragraphs.—IV."

• Page 114: Then again, the children are apt to think that the word "played" can be used with unvarying correctness. This may hold true in nine cases out of ten with regard to boxed games, but in out-door sports the verbs also differ. We play ball, we play marbles, but do we ever play rope? When the boys come in, fresh from some jolly romp and anxious to tell of it, yet wishing to speak correctly, you will find that a rapid glance will be given at the slate to see if the beloved sport is there, and if so, it will be with increased confidence that they begin their tale. Here are a few sentences for illustration:
  • We played tiddledy winks.
  • We played jack-straws.
  • I turned somersaults on the grass.
  • I played hop-scotch
  • The boys had a tug-of-war
  • [...]
    

"EDITORIAL"

• Page 70: It is a great pity that the general public which has to use the plant names does not refuse entirely to countenance this monkeying with nomenclature. If the name-tinkers must be employed, let them engage in a game of tiddledywinks or take up tatting as a pastime.

"Exhibit of games in the Columbian Exposition"/"Case II. Balls, Quoits, Marbles" by Stewart Culin

• Page 209: The comparatively new game "Tiddledy winks" follows, leading up to a recent German game called the "Newest War Game," in which the men or "winks" are played upon a board upon which are represented two opposing fortresses.

"Toronto, Ont." by A. Mooney

• Page 45: A. Lucas, W. O'Neill and G. Labadie have started to work on the Tiddley Winks shop here.

("tiddlywinks game that you play until it's time to go to work. And that's just what it is to me! I don't want to be a singer. I want to be a woman!'

'If I'm a man, you made me one.'

"Comment on New Books" ("The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Games and Sports, by John D. Champlin, Jr., and Arthur E. Bostwick. (Holt.) Eight hundred double-columned pages, full of descriptive illustrations, and so brought to date that the noble game of Tiddledy Winks has more than a column. We object seriously to one of the rules: 'A player may not intentionally cover any of his opponent's counters.' Why, the snap is taken out of the game when one can cover accidentally only.")

"On the Off-Short Lights." (" [...] ''T is long ter set. I wisht I could feel ter play tiddledy-winks,' she said wistfully.")

"Waxing nostalgic for weathered leather we once wore" by Lisa Winston. ("The last one picked for every team from softball to tiddlywinks.")

"An Arctic Scoop" by Walter Tallmade Arndt and Philip Loring Allen

• Page 16: As the papers never published any telegraph news their duties were not onerous and they spent most of their time playing tiddledywinks and tit-tat-too at the Red Walrus.

"Einson-Freeman co., inc. 1282-1311"

• "[Box design]: Baseball tiddledy winks, 1603, Basket-ball tiddledy winks, 1600."
• "[Game design]: Baseball tiddledy winks, 1603, Basket-ball tiddledy winks, 1600."

"So You Want to Invent a Game"

• Page 29: With a few exceptions, Parker Brothers own almost all the well-known proprietary games. Many old games, such as chess, checkers, Chinese checker and tiddlywinks, are open games, not owned by anyone. They are in the public domain.

"The Home Toy-Shop."/"I.— Games for a Rainy Day."

• Page 28, column 1: Fig. 2.— A Tiddleywinks Target. [with illustration]
• Page 28, column 2: The same board can be used as a scoring-board f[or the] well-known game of "Tiddleyu-Winks,"
• Page 29, column 1: "A target can be set up as shown in fig. 2, for 'Tiddley-Wink' players to shoot at.

"The Home or the Barrack for the Children of the State" by Henrietta O. Barrett.

• Page 246: Recreation rooms were provided for both boys and girls, and the long winter evenings were anything but dreary, for when school was done and work over the children gathered in the brilliantly lit, hot-pipe-heated rooms and played draughts, bagatelle, lotto, or tiddly-winks.

"The Maltese Cat" by Rudyard Kipling

• Page 308: "Who said anything about biting? I'm not playing tiddlywinks. I'm playing the game."

"The Parker Games" advertisement

• (no page number): Our illustrated catalogue describing "Innocence Abroad," "Chivalry," "Penny Post," "Kringle," "Tiddledy Winks," and 100 other games, on receipt of 2c. stamp.

"Current Literature"/"Brief and Critical Comment"

• Page 159-160: Mrs. Amelia E. Barr, writing in The North American Review, takes this view of the matter: "The true writer gives his whole intellect and his whole time to his work, and he is satisfied to do so. He has no time and no interest to spare for tiddledy-winks and donkey parties, nor even for progressive euchre. [...]"

"London Notes"

• Page 35: I am the happy possessor of a monster pen'north in the "Sunlight" Yearbook." In addition to treatises on Veal stuffing, Tiddley Winks and Double Sixes, the work contains an article on Draughts in which the gifted author is good enough to remark that the game "may call forth a fair amount of skill."

"A Scientific Game" by Agnes Hood

• Page 155: The lady speaks: "Oh, yes, I'm devoted to whist; I know you men think we poor women can't play a bit, but really you're quite wrong. I've been told I play a very pretty game. It is so nice and intellectual, isn't it? It makes one think. No, I don't care for most games, they are such waster of time, don't you think so? A friend of mine spends hours, positively hours, over Tiddleywinks. I often say to her, my dear Mary, how can you? I call it really wicked to waste one's time so.

"Protecting the Theme-Reader" by Homer A. Watt, New York University

• Page 170: The principal charge against Freshman English is that it is uninspiring. It does not engage the teacher's mind sufficiently nor pay back in intellectual stimulation the efforts expended upon it. To descend from several years of graduate study of the best literature in the world to extensive and intensive reading of what the Atlantic Clubber calls the worst literature in the world is like a descent from chess to tiddledywinks.

"The Gathering of the Churches"/"Graft in the Wage System" by Eugene Wood

• Page 466: "Open and honorable competition!" What do our "moral teachers" think the scuffle for a living is? A game of tiddledywinks?

"Otherwhere" by Leon Rutledge Whipple

• Page 527: "They hop like tiddledywinks on green felt," she called to John, laughing against the fence.

Entry: "Fincher, Joseph Assheton [sub-registrar's district] "Andover" [volume] 2c [page] 174".

Andover is in Hampshire, Wiltshire, England

Entry: "Fincher, Joseph Assheton [age] 36 [district] "Lambeth" [volume] 1.d. [page] 181".

Lambeth is in Greater London, London, Surrey, England

"Current Comment"

• Page 3: "DOORATCHKY."—There is no simpler game of cards than the Russian "dooratchky," which may be freely translated as "tiddly-winks."

"Correspondence"

• Page 523: If you find it quite impossible to provide for dancers, try progressive games. Have as many tables as you like, and arrange a different game at every table. At one, jackstraws; at another, jack-stones; for the third, bagatelle; for the fourth, checkers; and so on till the last table, where euchre is played. Lotto parties are very nice sometimes, and for just the kind of entertainment you wish, tiddleywinks is played.

"Toys Made from Odds and Ends" by Jane Nesbitt

• Page 582: An appropriate war game may be made after the fashion of "Tiddley-winks". THe front elevation of a fort is drawn in pencil on a piece of stout cardboard and colored with paints or crayons. Windows are cut out,and the whole is made to stand upright by the addition of two or three triangular supports. [Illustration at top left]
  
  Each player in turn places his small counters (generally sixe) anywhere in front of the fortress. He is now the attacking party, and his object is to shoot his counters through the different windows. If he succeeds in sending a counter through the
• Page 620: window, then he "kills" a certain number of the "enemy". The winner is the player who "kills" the greatest number in a given time. Any shot missing the fort entirely, going over, or missing at the sides, is a wasted shot, and counts one figure off the player's score.

"The Month"

• Page 609: Tiddley-Winks.—There is a report of a case in the Australian Law Times which involved the question whether the word "tiddley-wink" is libellous. A Chief Justice and two puisne judges deliberated upon this delicate matter, and decided in the negative. An "expert in slang" was called as a witness at the trial, who defined "tiddley-winking" to mean "using little dodges to obtain his own ends." The jury declined to find this libellous, and the Court refused to disturb their decision. It is clear that the "expert in slang" did not know what he was talking about. Tiddley-winks, as most people know, is a game played with counters on a table, the object being to jerk the counters into a small
• Page 610: cup in the centre of the table. TO call a man a tiddley-wink, therefore, is no more libellous than to call him a lawn-tennis racquet.

"Happy Farmers" by Camilla Kendall

• Page 505: Kenneth, whose father is a draughtsman and skillful with a knife, brought a most perfectly made windmill for the barnyard, and Edwin furnished a "Tiddledy Winks" cup for a watering trough.

"TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY CONCERN"

• Page 22: SPORTSMAN.—We thank you for sending us the catalogue of Messrs. John Jaques & Son, 102, Hatton Garden, E.C., giving particulars of the latest "Parlour Games." These prove unmistakably that the march of intellect is becoming quicker every day we live. "Wibbly-Wob"; the new varieties of "Tiddledy-Winks"; "Snick-Kick"; "Blow Football"; "Ludo"; "Pliffkings"; "Bumble-Puppy"; "Curliwigs"; "Loto"; "Flitterkins"; "Shantu"; and the rest of these pastimes which we see, are described as "intellectual and exciting," are a complete justification of State-supported schools and free libraries. We hold that, in view of these marvellous evidences of the blessings of popular education, the citizen who curses the upward tendency of the school-rate is a disgrace to the enlightened age in which he lives. It may or may not be true that Wellington declared that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton: of this be assured, all future British victories will be entirely due to either "Wibbly-Wob" or "Bumble-Puppy." We have already seen, in South Africa, what an intimate knowledge of the rules of "Ping-Pong" can do for the British Army; and the way in which General Buller crossed and recrossed the Tugela till he did not know which side he was on, or whether he was in the middle, demonstrated conclusively that "Tiddledy-Winks" is an indispensable adjunct to the study of military manœvres."

"Letters to the Editor"

• Page 2: Sirs:
  
  I admire your marvelous courage in doing "The Chicago Rackets" but aren't you risking a kick in the teeth or a slug in the belly?
  
  You spoiled a beautfiful illusion with this writer by digging up the ghosts of Capone. I thought they had all turned to tiddlywinks.
  
  But as long as they have evidently tucked away their heaters, are making their graft payments happily and are keeping Chicagoans and suburbanites biologically, economicall and pschologically merry, why not let sleeping dogs keep their bones buried?
  
  Mal Higgins
  Cottage Grove, Ore.

"Shakespeare"

• Page 342: You hear the jingle of keys, the flick of the whip, and the rattle of lawn mower; and a cold, secret fear takes possession of you—a sort of half-frenzied impulse to flee before smug modernity takes you captive and whisks you off to play tiddledy-winks or dance the racquet.

"Wants for Some One to Fill"

• Page 48: The following is a list of game Miss Carpenter would like very much to have for use in her clubs for boys and girls. [...] Brevet, Wonder Garden, Chuck a Luck, Wonderland Zoo, Parcheesi, Puff Billiards, Wall Toss, Funny Face Game, Parlor Croquet, Halma, Ping Pong, Picture Lotto, Jack Straws, Putting Tail on Donkey, King Ring, Hopla, TIddledy Winks, Croquet

"The Knave and the Deuce"/"A Horrible Story" by Sir Ephialtes Mooncalf, Knight-Mayor

• Page 571: He cared not for ghosts, but he'd watched like a lynx
  For the deuce when the dice he would rattle,
  And then the bad spirits he'd met with, methinks,
  At the low country taverns they call tiddleywinks,
  Might have used him to that sort of cattle.

"PING PONG"/"The Greatest of In-Door Games" by Henry Essex.

• Page 127: "This winter Ping-Pong will doubtless reach the greatest point of popularity that a game has ever attained.
  
  In the last twenty years there have been three great furores in games. These were Tiddledy Winks, flippant and foolish but still fascinating; Pillow Dex, the immensely popular game played with inflated Pillow Dex ballons, (which are struct to and fro across a dividing line) and Ping-Pong:—
  
  And the greatest of these is Ping-Pong." ...
  
  "Of these three game Tiddledy Winks is entirely devoid of generalship or mental skill."

"Pointing to two imaginary targets at the same time: Bimanual allocentric and
egocentric localization in visual form agnosic D.F." by David P. Carey, H. Chris Dijkerman, A. David Milner.

• Page 1469: In the later experiments, we showed that requiring a sensorimotor
  response is not in itself sufficient to allowfor near-normal localization
  in pointing. D.F. made aiming movements directly to coloured
  tokens (“tiddlywinks”) on a fixed workspace containing 3–5 elements.

"Oh, Tiddledywinks" by Nancy Hinsdale Wilcox.

• The players are in their appointed places, eyes ahead and breath held. Every muscle is tensed, every nerve ending ready for the signal that will mean the start of a long-awaited, precision competition.

  “Ready?” the referee barks. The competitors nod silently. “Okay then. Ready, set … tiddledy!”

  Tiddledy?

  Yes, tiddledy. At the command the first contestant expertly flips a plastic disk toward a small, round container in the center of the table, having used eye, hand, and mind in the effort. Success! There is a faint plastic plop as the disk settles into the cup.

  “Darn!” The opponent says to himself. “I’ll really have to squidge the wink into the tub carefully this time.”

  Squidge? Wink? Tub? What is this, anyway?

  This, in case you have not already guessed, is that game you probably discarded years ago with your dolls or toy trucks. If you didn’t, you better get it out of your little brother’s toy box or the attic; the tiddledywink revival is on its way.

  Although there was no tiddling team in the Olympics, the game—or sport, as enthusiasts prefer to call it—has enjoyed popularity on college campuses for years. Many universities sponsor an annual tournament (probably in conjunction with their frog-jumping and frisbee-throwing contests) to pit top tiddlers against each other. In fact, one year the Harvard team hosted an international meet, only to be out-winked by the Oxford flippers 25–0. This did not inhibit them, however, and they went on to capture all of the Ivy League titles for that year.

  The sport is ideal for parties, activities, and socials. Almost everyone can participate, whether it is as a competitor, scorekeeper, referee, or cheerleader (“T-I-D, D-L-E, Tiddle-that-wink!”). Rounds can move fast enough for a fairly large group to play and a tournament champion can emerge in fairly short order. However, for the more intense, six-hour winkathons have been known to occur.[more]

"High Connexions"

• Page 399: There's Lady Flash, the Earl of Trumps,
  And old Sir Abel Addle.—
  Lord Tidley Winks, and Viscount Frumps,
  And Lady Fiddlefaddle;—

"Football and Polo in China" by Herbert A. Giles. Quotation in OED

• Page 509: In one passage we are told how the great general Ho Ch'ü-ping, when campaigning in the north, and almost destitute of provisions for his troops, 'hollowed out a place for them to play football in,' whatever that may mean.
  
  In the Hsi ching tsa chi we read:
  
  The Emperor, Ch'êng Ti, B.C. 32-6, was fond of football; but his officers represented to him that it was both physically exhausting and also unsuitable to the Imperial dignity. Hist Majesty replied: We like playing; and what one chooses to do is not exhausting. An appeal was then made to the Empress, who suggested the game of tiddlywinks for the Emperor’s amusement

"Brief Notes"

• Page 29: The inside coterie of the A. O. U. just now seem to be engaged in a game of Tiddledy-winks,,,,, seeing who can jump the most names in the new list.

"A Study in Moral Education" by J. R. Street

• Page 23: "The following list shows the games played by the girls: Hide and seek 56. Croquet 43. Tag 41. [...] Hop-scotch, tiddledy winks 5."
• Page 24: "In regard to the moral import of games, the following classification shows the way they are viewed by the boys and girls: [...] Perserverance. Pigs-in-clover 9.Parchesi 9. Tennis 9. [...] Tiddledy winks 2." [...] "Honesty. Croquet 19. Hide and seek. 18. Cards 12. [...] tiddledy winks, innocence abroad, go bang (1 each)."

"The Developmental Influences of Play" by James Herbert McKee, M.D.

• Page 454: Many games are now played—"duck-on-the-rock," "black man," "crokinole," "leap-frog,"—simple feats of all kinds, turning, somersaults, rolling over backward, marbles, "mumble-the-peg," "prisoner's base," "puss in the corner," "tiddledy winks," "touch wood."

• Page 200: It admits a man of mediocre ability into a certain society on a basis which a person of similar attainments could never otherwise reach. And this, it should be explained, is the society of affectation, pretense, cheese-straws, tiddledy-winks and poetic parchesi.

"A Mystery Solved."

• Page 106: "What is the Navy sailing for?" quoth I to Captain Binks. "I do not know," the Sea Dog said. "But this is what I thinks:
  
  Bob Evans wants to teach the Japs the game of TIddledy-winks."
  
  I put the question next unto our doughty Admirell.
  
  "I do not know," said he, "and if I did I wouldn't tell."
  
  I thought he muttered something else that bade me go to thunder. [...]"

"The Mob Mind" by Prof. Edward A. Ross

• Page 395: As there must be in the typical mob a center which radiates impulses by fascination till they have subdued enough people to continue their course by sheer intimidation, so for the craze there must be an excitant, overcoming so many people that these can affect the rest by mere volume of suggestion. [...]
  
  The fad originates in the surprise or interest excited by novelty. Roller-skating, blue glass, the planchette, a forty days' fast, the "new woman,", tiddledy-winks, faith-healing, the "13-14-15" puzzle, baseball, telepathy, or the sexual novel attract those restless folk who are always running hither and thither after some new thing.

"Our Readers Say"/"Batters, too, Are Mystified By Ballistics of Baseball"

• Page 10: Now that all of young America with the exception of those who like tiddledy-winks better are preparing to invade the sandlots of the nation in resuming the great national outdoor battle for baseball honors, why couldn't we have an article on the ballistics of baseball?

"New Table Game Resembles Tennis" with one illustration

• Page 139: Tiddledywinks and tennis are combined in a novel parlor game just introduced. Played on a felt pad measuring twelve by twenty-four inches and marked with white lines as on a real tennis court, the game uses thin disks which are snapped back and forth across a diminutive net by means of tiny rackets. Rules and scoring are similar to those used in tennis. In the photograph reproduced at the left, a player is shown about to serve from the back line of the court. In the foreground are the rackets and teh "balls" used.

Almanack entry for October 1899. "In the Toys and Games Department.

Particular Lady. I—a—want some sort of game for two small boys about eight or nine.

Assistant.For juveniles of that age I can strongly recommend the game of 'Ascot.' You wind the little horses along on a reel at the end of a string, and the one which gets in first is the—ah—winner.

P. L. (severely). I should be sorry, indeed, to give any boys a game that encourages a taste for the turf.

A. Of course it—ah—might have that tendency. Here is a highly amusing game called—ah—'Tiddledywinks.'

P. L. (icily). Tiddledy-I beg your pardon?

A. (with dignity). Tiddledy-winks, madam.

P. L. And pray how do you—a—tiddledywink?

A. It is—ah—not one of my recreations, madam, but you will find full instructions supplied with each set, and I understand that they are so simple that the merest child can easily become—ah—proficient.

P. L. And go tiddledywinks all over the place? A most undesirable accomplishment in my opinion.

A. Pardon me—I think, madam, you are misled be the associations of the title, which may, perhaps—ah—verge on vulgarity, but the game itself is perfectly free from objection, and popular with the most select and refined circles.

P. L. (firmly). The name is quite sufficient."

Suggestions for Small Parties by Mary Louise Graham.

• Page 483: A Salmagundi party was the entertainment prepared for one evening. A different kind of game was played at each of the little tables with which the room was filled. The winners progressed from one table to the next, and prizes were distributed at the end of the evening. There are a great many games that are suitable for a Salmagundi party, Lotto, for instance, and tiddledywinks, shooting with air pistols at a target, parlor golf, crokinole, authors, angling, and various games of cards.

"Child Study in the United States"

• Page 1343: "Games."/"Sec. X. What games have you preferred and what has been their influence in developing manlines or womanliness, sense of justice and fair play, honesty, perseverance, hardihood, physical strength, and what recreations do you prefer, and why? What is their effect?" "The following list shows the games played by the girls: Hide and seek, 56; croquet, 43; tag, 41; [...] hopscotch, tiddledy winks, 5; [...]"
• Page 1344: "Perseverance.—Pigs in clover, 9; parchesi, 9; tennis, 9; [...] tiddledy winks, 2; [...]" "Honesty.—Croquet, 19; hide and seek, 18; cards, 12; [...] tiddledy winks [...], 1 each."
  

"Football An Ancient Chinese Game"

• Page 288: In the Nineteenth Century, Mr. H. A. Giles, Professor of Chinese at Cambridge, writes on football and polo in China. He remarks that football was played by the Chinese several centuries before Julius Cæsar landed in Britain. Its invention has been ascribed to the mythical Yellow Emperor of the third millennium B.C. He quotes an ancient record:—
  
  The Emperor, Ch'eng Ti, B.C. 32-6, was fond of football; but his officers represented to him that it was both physically exhausting and anlso unsuitable to the Imperial dignity. His Majesty replied: "We like playing; and what one chooses to do is not exhausting." An appeal was then made to the Empress, who suggested the game of tiddlywinks for the Emperor's amusement.

"Sporting Goods", E. I. Horsman advertisement

• Page 65: Horsman's Tiddledy Wink Tennis. The Latest Craze. By the introduction of this game Tennis players are enabled to indulge in their favorite pastime in the Parlor as well as upon the lawn. Singles and doubles as well as three-handed games may be played.
  
  Each player is provided with a large bone counter, which is termed a "racket." A number of small bone counters represent tennis balls. A miniature tennis court of heavy green felt, accurately marked out with tennis net, accompanies the game.
  
  A cup and the full number of counters is also provided for the rgular Game of Tiddledy Winks.
  
  Packed complete in box. WIll be sent free on receipt of One Dollar.
  
  E. I. Horsman, Publisher, 80 & 82 William St., N.Y.

"Obligations of the State to Public Education" by Hon. Charles Bulkley Hubbell

• Page 214: Persons high in authority even insist that the A, B, C's, are all that the State should concern itself with in its relation to the schools, that the kindergarten serves no better purpose than to make children expert in tiddledy-winks, assert that physical culture only serves the ends of pugilism, and that the daily inspection of children with reference to contagious diseases in our schools is an invasion of the line of parental duties.

"University Sport"

• Page 424:TIDDLEYWINKS.
  
  Sidney Sussex College won their first victory at tiddleywinks [...] Saturday, when they beat Newnham College by 84 points to [...] (eight a side).
  
  In its exhilaration over a victory comparable in its way [...] Naseby, Cromwell's college, I understand, proposes to re-christen [...] great game SIddneywinks.

To all of this nonsense, we say: BRPAA, go home. Or go out and organize the Tiddly-Winkers. Let pool alone. Pool is the last refuge of the harassed male.")

(When asked about the latter, Publicist Close looked as though he had been hit with a cream pie. 'Oh, don't mention that,' he said, grinning sheepishly. Why not? 'It's embarrassing. Tiddly-winks.' What prompted it? 'The world championships. In London. Please don't mention it.' The team went to London? 'Yes.' How'd it do? Subdued voice: 'They won.' [...])")

• Page 12: Tiddleywinks, too, once held me in its toils, but it proved too engrossing. But how the memory lives of that glorious night when, after an appalling struggle, I brought home in triumph the Championship Shield of the Tottenham Tiddleywinks Tournament.

Advertisement, "Gamage's Grand Christmas Bazaar"

• (unnumbered page): Chess, Draughts, Dominoes, Billiards, Bagatelle, Table Croquet, German Billiards, Tiddledy Winks, Playing Cards, and Indoor Games of Every Description

In the game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee—the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks.")

'. . . You can't relegate them to the nursery or 1918. The pace has changed. These men are not going to stand for . . . rationed entertainment. It's the bunk to them. Tiddlywinks is no substitute for a girl.'")

"The Black Englishman." The man who won at tiddlywinks is Seretse Khama, 43, a tall, bearded Oxonian who 16 years ago threw away his right to the paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry an English girl.")

"What is Spoof?"

• Page 330: Tiddleywinks.
  
  Spoof (turf), deception, swindle, sell. Properly a childish kind of game like "tiddleywinks." [...]
  
  It no doubt owes its origin to the game of "spoof," played on a draught-board with counters, which have to ber whisked on the top of the adversary's own counters by means of a small stick.

"How One Missionary Rests"

• Page 57: "That vision faded and a brighter one came when I saw the folks waiting for me when I got home. An elderly lady and her three grandchildren and two other boys were sitting in the sunshine on the south veranda, and two lonesome, half-sick, middle-aged women were huddled near the stove in the sitting room. I got a blanket and pillow for one of them and had her lie down, got out the "tiddledy winks" for the little boys, wiped the baby's nose, and talked with the grandmother a while.

"How One Missionary Rests"

• Page 57: I got a blanket and pillow for one of them and had her lie down, got out the "titedy winks" for the little boys, wiped the baby's nose, and talked with the grandmother a while.

"Work That's Being Done"

• Page 347: But here is what Thomas Chew suggests as a proper list of boys' games, suitable, he says, for boys under 14:
  
  Checkers, dominoes, lotto, ring-toss, blocks, tiddley-winks, [...]