Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXVI. Games.

        [Patting the foot on the five toes.]

    Shoe the colt, shoe!
        Shoe the wild mare;
    Put a sack on her back,
        See if she'll bear.
    If she'll bear,
        We'll give her some grains;
    If she won't bear,
        We'll dash out her brains!

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Nursery Rhyme. CCVI. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCLVII. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CLXI. Songs.

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Nursery Rhyme. XCII. Proverbs.

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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.
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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. CCCXIII. Games.

    Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
    To see an old lady upon a white horse,
    Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes,
    And so she makes music wherever she goes.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCI. Games.

    Is John Smith within? -
    Yes, that he is.
    Can he set a shoe? -
    Ay, marry, two,
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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;
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        Ninery, ten:
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        The fat begins to fry,
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        Father, mother, and I.
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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCIX. Games.

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