158 _ NURSERY RHYMES.

 

“There’s the dog, take the dog.”
“What’s the dog’s name?”
“T’ve told you already.”
“Pray tell me again.”

COUN
FLOUR of England, fruit of Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string:
If you’ll tell me this riddle, I’ll give you a ring.
A plum pudding.
CCLX.
A HOUSE full, a yard full,
And ye can’t catch a bow! full.
Smoke.
CCLXI.
As I was going o’er yon moor of moss,
I met a man on a grey horse;
He whipped and he wailed ;
I asked him what he ailed ;
He said he was going to his father’s funeral,
Who died seven years before he was born!
His father was a dyer.
CCLXII. -
BLACK’M, saut’m, rough’m, glower’m, saw,
Click’m, gatt’m, flaug’m. into girnigaw.

Eating a sloe.
[A North-country riddle, given by Brockett. ‘‘ Girnigaw” is the cavity of the mouth.]