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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