Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXIV. Games.

        [Children stand round, and are counted one by one, by means of this rhyme. The child upon whom the last number falls is out, for "Hide or Seek," or any other game where a victim is required. A cock and bull story of this kind is related of the historian Josephus. There are other versions of this, and one may be seen in 'Blackwood's Magazine' for August, 1821, p. 36.]

    Hickory (1), Dickory (2), Dock (3),
    The mouse ran up the clock (4),
    The clock struck one (5),
    The mouse was gone (6);
    O (7), U (8), T (9), spells OUT!

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Nursery Rhyme. CLVI. Songs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLIV. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXXI. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLV. Gaffers And Gammers.

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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,
        You or I must be he.

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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. CCLXXXIV. Games.

    Awake, arise, pull out your eyes,
        And hear what time of day;
    And when you have done, pull out your tongue,
        And see what you can say.

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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. 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. CCCII. Games.

        [Used in Somersetshire in counting out the game of pee-wip or pee wit.]

    One-ery, two-ery, hickary, hum,
    Fillison, follison, Nicholson, John,
    Quever, quauver, Irish Mary,
    Stenkarum, stankarum, buck!

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