Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXX. Games.

        [The following is used by schoolboys, when two are starting to run a race.]

    One to make ready,
        And two to prepare;
    Good luck to the rider,
        And away goes the mare.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCL. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXIV. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLVI. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXVI. Games.

        [The following lines are sung by children when starting for a race.]

    Good horses, bad horses,
        What is the time of day?
    Three o'clock, four o'clock,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCIX. Games.

        Here goes my lord
    A trot, a trot, a trot, a trot,
        Here goes my lady
    A canter, a canter, a canter, a canter!
            Here goes my young master
        Jockey-hitch, Jockey-hitch, Jockey-hitch, Jockey-hitch:
            Here goes my young miss,
        An amble, an amble, an amble, an amble!
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXI. Games.

    To market ride the gentlemen,
        So do we, so do we;
    Then comes the country clown,
        Hobbledy gee, Hobbledy gee;
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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:
    Spittery spot,
        It must be done;
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        The fat begins to fry,
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        Father, mother, and I.
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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCVIII. Games.

    Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross,
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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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