80 THE SPORTS AND GAMES OF THE SINGHALESE. 



end is tipped with the striker, and as it leaps up is struck 

 away to a distance. The distance from the hole is then 

 measured with the striker, and the cat again tipped and 

 struck until the agreed upon score or number of lengths 

 is made, when the winner exacts the same penalty as in 

 the previous game. Should the cat be caught when 

 struck, or fall within a distance that can be reached by 

 the loser lying stretched on the ground on his stomach, 

 with his feet on the point last attained by the player, the 

 player goes out, but he is entitled to exact so much of the 

 penalty as remains due between that point and the hole. 



Walekadju. " Cashew-nut hole" is a favorite game 

 with boys when cashews are in season. It is played very 

 much in the same way as " Tip shares" or "Handers.* 

 A hole about three or four inches wide, and as many deep, 

 is made in the ground, and an offing seven or eight feet 

 away is marked. The players then retire to three times 

 that distance, and quoit a bait a towards the hole. The 

 player that gets into the hole or nearest to it has the 

 right to begin, the others following in the order of proxi- 

 mity. The order of succession being thus determined, the 

 boy who has the right to begin takes up the cashew nuts 

 in the hole and from the offing station, pitches them back 

 into the hole. Should an even number get in, he takes 

 them all, but should it be odd, one cashew is thrown to 

 him by the next player, and he has to pitch it back into 

 the hole, which if he succeeds in doing, he takes all in the 

 hole, but failing is out. Should he have holed an even 



* See Routledge and Son's " Every Boy's Book/' p. G5 f 



