Nursery Rhyme. CCCLVII. Games.

        [A game of the fox.]

            Fox a fox, a brummalary,
            How many miles to Lummaflary? Lummabary.

    A.    Eight and eight, and a hundred and eight.
            How shall I get home to night?

    A.    Spin your legs, and run fast.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXXV. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXVIII. Games.

        [A game of the Fox. In a children's game, where all the little actors are seated in a circle, the following stanza is used as question and answer.]

    Who goes round my house this night?
        None but cruel Tom!
    Who steals all the sheep at night?
        None but this poor one.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXVIII. Games.

        [The following is a game played as follows: A string of boys and girls, each holding by his predecessor's skirts, approaches two others, who with joined and elevated hands form a double arch. After the dialogue, the line passes through, and the last is caught by a sudden lowering of the arms - if possible.]

    How many miles is it to Babylon? -
    Threescore miles and ten.
    Can I get there by candle-light? -
    Yes, and back again!
    If your heels are nimble and light,
    You may get there by candle-light.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXVIII. Games.

        [A song set to five fingers.]

    1. This pig went to market;
    2. This pig staid at home;
    3. This pig had a bit of meat;
    4. And this pig had none;
    5. This pig said, Wee, wee, wee! I can't find my way home.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLVIII. Games.

        [A game-rhyme.]

    Trip and go, heave and hoe,
    Up and down, to and fro;
    From the town to the grove
    Two and two let us rove,
    A-maying, a-playing;
    Love hath no gainsaying;
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    So merrily trip and go!

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXXVI. Games.

        [This game begins thus: Take this - What's this? - A gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog, & c.]

    Twelve huntsmen with horns and hounds,
    Hunting over other men's grounds!
    Eleven ships sailing o'er the main,
    Some bound for France and some for Spain:
    I wish them all safe home again:
    Ten comets in the sky,
    Some low and some high;
    Nine peacocks in the air,
    I wonder how they all came there,
    I do not know and I do not care;
    Eight joiners in joiner's hall,
    Working with the tools and all;
    Seven lobsters in a dish,
    As fresh as any heart could wish;
    Six beetles against the wall,
    Close by an old woman's apple stall;
    Five puppies of our dog Ball,
    Who daily for their breakfast...

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXIX. Games.

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

    Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn,
    Pinnikin, Pinnikin, stole the corn.
    Long back'd Gray
    Carried it away.
    Old Mid-man sat and saw,
    But Peesy-weesy paid for a'.

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