238 NURSERY RHVMES.

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BEANS AND BUTTER.
~fSo the game of ‘‘ Hide-and-Seek ” is called in some parts of Oxfordshire. ]

CHILDREN hide from each other, and when it is time to com-
mence the search, the cry is,
Hot boiled beans and very good butter,
If you please to come to supper!

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CCCCII.

THIS should be accompanied by a kind of pantomimic dance,
in which the motions of the body and arms express the process
of weaving ; the motion of the shuttle, &c.

Weave the diaper tick-a-tick tick,
Weave the diaper tick—