256 NURSERY RHVMES.

 

 

3. To look for my mother, says this pig;
4. What to do with her? says that pig;
5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.

CCCCXXXVII.
!Patting the foot on the five toes.]
SHOE the colt, shoe!
Shoe the wild mare;
Put a sack on her back,
See if she'll bear.
If she'll bear,
We'll give her some grains ;
If she won't bear,
We'll dash out her brains!

CCCCX XXVIII.

[An exercise during which the fingers of the child are enumerated. ]
THUMBIKIN, Thumbikin, broke the barn,
Pinnikin, Pinnikin, stole the corn.

Long backed Gray

Carried it away.

Old Mid-man sat and saw,
But Peesy-weesy paid for a’.

CCCCXX XIX.
. THIS pig went to the barn.
. This eat all the corn.
. This said he would tell.
. This said he wasn’t well.
. This went Week! week! week! over the door sill.

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