Nursery Rhyme. CCCXLII. Games.

        [A song set to five fingers.]

    1. This pig went to market;
    2. This pig staid at home;
    3. This pig had a bit of meat;
    4. And this pig had none;
    5. This pig said, Wee, wee, wee! I can't find my way home.

        [Song set to five toes.]

    1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig;
    2. What to do there? says that pig;
    3. To look for my mother, says this pig;
    4. What to do with her? says that pig;
    5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.

    This pig went to market,
        Squeak mouse, mouse, mousey;
    Shoe, shoe, shoe the wild colt,
        And here's my own doll, Dowsy.

        [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,
    But Peesy-weesy paid for a'.

        [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.

        [A game-rhyme.]

    Trip and go, heave and hoe,
    Up and down, to and fro;
    From the town to the grove
    Two and two let us rove,
    A-maying, a-playing;
    Love hath no gainsaying;
    So merrily trip and go,
    So merrily trip and go!