¥HE SPORTS AND GAMES OF THE SINGHALESE. 39 



according to deah The deal is from right to left. Should 

 the first player call out Solo and another player also have 

 ts Solo" consisting of a sequence of Spades, that player has 

 the preference. Should a player playing Solo, or two play- 

 ers by Juda } make only four tricks, it is called a Rapoor ; 

 should they make only three it is called a Kudjito. In 

 Rapoor the stakes are not paid immediately, but go to the 

 winners of the next hand ; in kudjito, they are paid at 

 once. The first rapoor pays seven, and should the same 

 player be rapoor in the succeeding hand which is called a 

 " double rapoor" he pays fourteen, should he become 

 rap§or a third time he pays twenty-one and the game ends ; 

 should he become kudjito over one rapoor he pays fourteen, 

 over two, twenty-one when also the game ends. A kudjito 

 pays only seven. If it be a rapoor or kudjito by juda, the 

 person giving juda pays only one, if he had made two 

 tricks, if not he pays three, and the other four. 



Of toys the Singhalese have hardly any. 



The Top, at least the Peg Top, they owe to their 

 European masters, though the name Bambere, a purely 

 Singhalese word, would seem to point to a native origin. 

 The Humming top called the andana (crying) bambere is 

 made of the wood-apple emptied of its core through a hole 

 in the side ft Two holes opposite each other at top and 

 bottom are next made and a peg five or six inches long is 

 fastened through them, the upper end of the peg protrud- 

 ing an inch or so out to which any little ornament may be 

 attached. A string is next wound round the peg from 

 bottom to top, and the end passed through a small hole in 

 a piece of wood called the " key." The Top is spun by 

 holding this " key" firmly against the peg, and steadily 

 pulling the string out. 



