222 NURSERY RHVMES.

 

CCCLXXV.
SEE-SAW.

A COMMON game, children vacillating on either end of a plank
supported on its centre. While enjoying this recreation, they
have a song of appropriate cadence, the burden of which is,

Titty cum tawtay,

The ducks in the water:
Titty cum tawtay,

The geese follow after.

CCCLXXVI.

NETTLES grow in an angry bush,
An angry bush, an angry bush;
Nettles grow in an angry bush,
With my High, Ho, Ham!
This is the way the lady goes,
The lady goes, the lady goes;
This is the way the lady goes,
With my High, Ho, Ham!
The children dance round some chairs, singing the first three
lines, turning round and clapping hands for the fourth line.
They curtsey while saying “this is the way the lady goes,” and
again turn round and clap hands for the last line. The same

process is followed in every verse, only varying what they act:
thus, in the third verse, they dow for the gentleman.

Nettles grow in an angry bush, &c.
This is the way the gentleman goes, &c.