Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXVII. Games.

        [Game on a child's features.]

    Here sits the Lord Mayor                            forehead.
        Here sit his two men                                eyes.
    Here sits the cock                                        right cheek.
        Here sits the hen                                    left cheek.
    Here sit the little chickens                    tip of nose.
        Here they run in                                        mouth.
    Chinchopper, chinchopper,
        Chinchopper, chin!                                    chuck the chin.

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Nursery Rhyme. LXXVIII. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXCIX. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXI. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLV. Games.

        [In the following, the various parts of the countenance are touched as the lines are repeated; and at the close the chin is struck playfully, that the tongue may be gently bitten.]

    Eye winker,
    Tom Tinker,
                Nose dropper.
    Mouth eater,
    Chin chopper,
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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,
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    Hink spink, the puddings stink,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLVII. Games.

        [A game on the fingers.]

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

        [This game begins thus: Take this - What's this? - A gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog, & c.]

    Twelve huntsmen with horns and hounds,
    Hunting over other men's grounds!
    Eleven ships sailing o'er the main,
    Some bound for France and some for Spain:
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    Ten comets in the sky,
    Some low and some high;
    Nine peacocks in the air,
    I wonder how they all came there,
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    Working with the tools and all;
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    As fresh as any heart could wish;
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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,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLIII. Games.

        [The two following are fragments of a game called "The Lady of the Land," a complete version of which has not fallen in my way.]

    Here comes a poor woman from baby-land,
    With three small children in her hand:
    One can brew, the other can bake,
    The other can make a pretty round cake.
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