117. This number includes the remains of two ancient games: (a)
_Ancient Greek_, #schoinophilinda#, Pollux, ix. 115, in
which a player must be whipped round the ring with the cord
he has dropped at the back of another.--_German_, in 14th
century, Mone, Anzeiger, 1839, p. 395.--_Spanish_, Maspons
y Labrós, p. 22.--_French_, Celnart, p. 55. (b) Strutt, p.
285, "Cat and Mouse, or Kiss in the Ring," where a player
pursues another round and through the circle.--_French_,
Celnart, p. 39, "Le Chat et la Souris."--_Italian_,
Gianandrea, No. 6.--_German_, Handelmann, p. 78.
122. Variation of No. 121. The name connects it with the old
English game of "Frog in the Middle," Strutt, p. 293; the
ancient Greek, #chytrinda#," pot-game," see p. 31, note.
123. _German_, Vernaleken, p. 75. Handelmann, p. 80. Meier, p.
105. See No. 89.