Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLI. Games.

        [From Yorkshire. A game to alarm children.]

    Flowers, flowers, high-do!
    Sheeny, greeny, rino! -
        Sheeny greeny,
        Sheeny greeny,
    Rum tum fra!

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Nursery Rhyme. LXVIII. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXXII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXX. Games.

        [A game at ball.]

    Cuckoo, cherry tree,
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    Let the tree be high or low,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLVII. Games.

        [A game on the fingers.]

    Heetum peetum penny pie,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCIII. Games.

    Intery, mintery, cutery-corn,
    Apple seed and apple thorn;
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    Five geese in a flock,
    Sit and sing by a spring,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLVIII. Games.

        [A game-rhyme.]

    Trip and go, heave and hoe,
    Up and down, to and fro;
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    Two and two let us rove,
    A-maying, a-playing;
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    So merrily trip and go!

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXVII. Games.

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

    One-ery, two-ery,
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        Ninery, ten:
    Spittery spot,
        It must be done;
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        Twenty-one.

    Hink spink, the puddings stink,
        The fat begins to fry,
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        Father, mother, and I.
    Stick, stock, stone dead,
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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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