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CCCCXXX.

IN the following childish amusement, one extends his arm,
and the other, in illustration of the narrative, strikes him gently
with the side of his hand at the shoulder and wrist, and then at
the word “middle” with considerable force on the flexor muscles
at the elbow-joint.

My father was a Frenchman,
He bought for me a fiddle,

He cut me here, he cut me there,
He cut me right in the middle.

CCCCXXXI.

I WENT to the sea,
And saw twentee
Geese all in a row:
My glove I would give
Full of gold, if my wife
Was as white as those.

These lines are to be repeated rapidly and correctly, inserting
che word cother after every word, under pain of a forfeit,

CCCCX XXII.
IT’s time, I believe,
For us to get ieave:
The little dog says
It isn’t, it is; it isn’t, it is, &c.
Said by a schoolboy, who places his book between his knees,

His two forefingers are then placed together, and the breadth of
each is measured alternately along the length of the book. The