Nursery Rhyme. CCCLV. Games.

        [In the following, the various parts of the countenance are touched as the lines are repeated; and at the close the chin is struck playfully, that the tongue may be gently bitten.]

    Eye winker,
    Tom Tinker,
                Nose dropper.
    Mouth eater,
    Chin chopper,
        Chin chopper.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXV. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCIV. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXI. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXVIII. Games.

        [A play with the face. The child exclaims:]

    Ring the bell!            giving a lock of its hair a pull.
    Knock at the door!    tapping its forehead.
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLX. Games.

        [The following lines are repeated by the nurse when sliding her hand down the child's face.]


    My mother and your mother
        Went over the way;
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        It's chop-a-nose day!

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXIX. Games.

        [An exercise during which the fingers of the child are enumerated.]

    Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCII. Games.

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    They met together in Grace-church Street;
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