210 NURSERY RHYMES.

Where’s the ox ?—The butcher has killed it.
Where’s the butcher ?—The rope has hanged him.
Where’s the rope ?—The rat has gnawed it.
Where’s the rat ?—The cat has killed it.

Where’s the cat >—Behind the church-door, cracking pebble-
stones and marrow-bones for yours and my supper, and the one
who speaks first shall have a box on the ear.

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CCCLVI.

ONE child holds a wand or pen or stick to the face of another,
repeating these lines, and making grimaces, to cause the latter
to laugh, and so to the others: those who laugh paying a forfeit.

Buff says Buff to all his men,

And I say Buff to you again ;

Buff neither laughs nor smiles,
But carries his face with a very good grace,
And passes the stick to the very next place!