CCLXXVI.

There was an old woman in Surrey, Who, was morn, noon, and night in a hurry; Call'd her husband a fool, Drove the children to school, The worrying old woman of Surrey.

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TENTH CLASS--GAMES.

CCLXXVII.

[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, It must be done; Twiddleum twaddleum, Twenty-one.

Hink spink, the puddings stink, The fat begins to fry, Nobody at home, but jumping Joan, Father, mother, and I. Stick, stock, stone dead, Blind man can't see, Every knave will have a slave, You or I must be he.

CCLXXVIII.

[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.