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NURSERY RHYMES.

 

Let us make a merry ring,

Talk and laugh, and dance and sing.
Quickly, quickly, come away,

For it is a pleasant day.

CCCXLIX.

[Rhymes used by children to decide who is to begin a game. ]

ONE-ERY, two-ery,
Ziccary zan;
Hollow bone, crack a bone,
Ninery, ten:
Spittery spot,
It must be done;
Twiddleum twaddleum,
Twenty-one.

Hink spink, the puddings stink,
The fat begins to fry,

Nobody at home, but jumping Joan,
Father, mother, and I.

Stick, stock, stone dead,
Blind man can’t see,

Every knave will have a slave,
You or I must be he.

CCCL.

Dance, Thumbkin, dance,

[Keep the thumb in motion.
Dance, ye merrymen, every one;

[Ad the fingers in motion.