"I would suggest hither come, Biddy come; basta, i.e. it is enough, let us proceed to " call out" the next person chosen.” CE. x. 369. It is evident that several fragments go to make up the above. "Onery, twoery, Hickory Ann, Filliston Follaston, Nicholson John, Singalum, Sangalum, Buck." Mill Hill Magazine, June, 1877. Onery, twoery, hickary hum, Fillison, follison, Nicholson, John; Winnery ory accory han Philol. Soc. Trans., (1878), p. 369. Onery, twoery, ickery, am, Bobtail, vinegar, tittle, and tam, Norfolk. CE. x. 369. "Onery, twoery, tickery, teven; One-er-y, twoery, tickery, Alabo, crackabo, ten and eleven: Spin, spon, must be gone; seven, Akaby, crackaby, ten and eleven, Pin, pan musky Dan, Black, fish, white, trout, You, go, out.-CE. x. 124. One-ery, twoery, Tickery, teevy! Ink, pink, Pen and ink; A stove, and a stink!"-AV. 134. "One-ery, two-ery, Ziccary Zan; 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. Gammer Gurton's Garland, reprint, 1866, p. 40. AW. 86, 87. Onery, twoery, ziggery, zan, Hollow bone, crack a bone, mulberry pan, Pit, pat, must be done, Twiddleum, twaddleum, twenty-one, O. U. T. spells out, And so you are fairly out.-CE. xi. 174. "One, Two, Three, Mother caught a flea, "One, two, three, four, Mary at the cottage door, Derbyshire. In Cumberland Maggie is substituted for "Mary," and plums for "cherries." AR. i. 384. At Ellesmere, in Shropshire, Mary, and plums. AP. 573. "There stands a pretty maid in a black cap, If you want a, etc., Please to take she!" E. Cornwall. AR. v. 48. "Timothy Titus took two tees, To tie two tups to two tall trees, To terrify the terrible Thomas-a-Tittamus, O. U. T. spell out-goes he." Oswestry, Shropshire. AP. 573. In Warwickshire this rhyme is a test of clear and rapid speech. "Vizzery, vazzery, vozery vem, FORMULAS. GAMES. Such rhymes are not of necessity continued throughout their respective games, but generally precede or open play. The rhyme occurs in Part I. of the Infant Institutes; or a Nonsensical Essay on the Poetry, Lyrical and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, etc.* In Gammer Gurton's Garland, 1783, reprint, p. 41, it commences Girls and Boys, and "whoop" is spelt hoop, and there is an additional verse "Leave your supper, and leave your sleep, Come to your playfellows in the street, Up the ladder and down the wall, A penny loaf will serve us all." The last two lines also form part of a rhyme of St. Clements. See CUSTOMS. AW. 109 has a similar version, with two additional lines— "You find milk and I'll find flour, BUILDING. And we'll have a pudding in half an hour." "Tip, top, tower, Tumble down in an hour."—AY. 168. When building with odds and ends of stone and earth. * London: printed for and sold by F. and C. Rivingtons, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1797. On the title-page some former possessor had written by B[aptist] N[oel] Turner, M.A." CI. iii. 441. CARRYING. Two children join hands, thus forming a seat, to carry a third, and say "Give me a pin to stick in my chin (? cushion) Gloucestershire: Warwickshire. version In CH. xii. 479, is given this CHOOSING. London bridge is broken, And what shall I do for a token, Give me a pin to stick in my thumb, A child hides a marble or other trifle, in one hand, and holds out both fists, saying "Handy-pandy, Jack-a-dandy, Which hand will you have?" If the other guesses right, he wins the marble; if wrong, he pays one. This infantine form of gambling is alluded to as "handy dandy" in Piers Plowman, and also in King Lear. AP. 530. Other versions Handy-Pandy, sugardy candy, Guess, etc.-AB. 155. Andy Handy-spandy, Jack-a-dandy, Loved plum cake and sugar candy. CJ. viii. 356. Handy dandy, Sugary Candy, Handy Dandy, Picardy Pandy, High, Jack, or low? Which hand will you have } ? S.E. Cornwall. CJ. vii. 235. North Lincolns. CJ. vii. 235: CJ. viii. 356. Handy-dandy, riddledy ro, Which will you have, high or low?-AV. 116. |