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NURSERY RHVMES.

 

I found it, I found it!
It burns, it scalds.

Repeating the last words very rapidly till she drops the glove
behind one of them, and whoever has the glove must overtake
her, following her exactly in and out till she catches her. If
the pursuer makes a mistake in the pursuit, she loses, and the
game is over; otherwise she continues the game with the glove.

CCCLXVIII.
INTERY, mintery, cutery-corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn;
Wine, brier, limber-lock,
Five geese in a flock,
Sit and sing by a spring,
O-U-T, and in again.

CCCLXIX.
THE OLD DAME.

ONE child, called the Old Dame, sits on the floor, and the rest

joining hands,
following lines :

Children.

Dame.
Children.

Dame.

form a circle round her, and dancing, sing the

To Beccles! to Beccles!

To buy a bunch of nettles!

Pray, old Dame, what’s o'clock?
One, going for two.

To Beccles! to Beccles!

To buy a bunch of nettles!

Pray, old Dame, what’s o'clock ?
Two, going for three. s

And so on till she reaches “Eleven, going for twelve.” After