[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'.
Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXIX. Games.
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