Nursery Rhyme. CCCXIV. Games.

        [Song set to five toes.]

    1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig;
    2. What to do there? says that pig;
    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.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXIV. Jingles.

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Beauty, Personal

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXLI. Charms.

Unknown , Simple Poetry

After Dinner Speeches

Unknown , Simple Poetry

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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. CCCXLII. Games.

    1. This pig went to the barn.
    2. This eat all the corn.
    3. This said he would tell.
    4. This said he wasn't well.
    5. This went week, week, week, over the door sill.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXL. Games.

    This pig went to market,
        Squeak mouse, mouse, mousey;
    Shoe, shoe, shoe the wild colt,
        And here's my own doll, Dowsy.

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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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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXVII. Games.

        [Rhymes used by children to decide who is to begin a game.]

    One-ery, two-ery,
        Ziccary zan;
    Hollow bone, crack a bone,
        Ninery, ten:
    Spittery spot,
        It must be done;
    Twiddleum twaddleum,
        Twenty-one.

    Hink spink, the puddings stink,
        The fat begins to fry,
    Nobody at home, but jumping Joan,
        Father, mother, and I.
    Stick, stock, stone dead,
        Blind man can't see,
    Every knave will have a slave,
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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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