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. CXXXVIII. Songs.

Unknown , Simple Poetry

Nursery Rhyme. CIV. Proverbs.

Unknown , Simple Poetry

Drinking

Unknown , Simple Poetry

Nursery Rhyme. DXLVIII. Natural History.

Unknown , Simple Poetry

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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