. The nursery rhymes of England . aid till Saturday. CCLXXI. THERE was an old man,And he had a calf, And thats half;He took him out of the stall,And put him on the wall; And thats all. CCLXX1I. FATHER SHORT came down the lane,Oh ! Im obliged to hammer and smiteFrom four in the morning till eight atnight, For a bad master, and a worse dame. GAFFERS AND GAMMERS. 1 53 CCLXXIII. THERE was an old woman called Nothing- at-all,Who rejoiced in a dwelling exceedingly small:A man stretched his mouth to its utmost extent,And down at one gulp house and old woman went. CCLXX1V. THERE was an old woman of No
. The nursery rhymes of England . aid till Saturday. CCLXXI. THERE was an old man,And he had a calf, And thats half;He took him out of the stall,And put him on the wall; And thats all. CCLXX1I. FATHER SHORT came down the lane,Oh ! Im obliged to hammer and smiteFrom four in the morning till eight atnight, For a bad master, and a worse dame. GAFFERS AND GAMMERS. 1 53 CCLXXIII. THERE was an old woman called Nothing- at-all,Who rejoiced in a dwelling exceedingly small:A man stretched his mouth to its utmost extent,And down at one gulp house and old woman went. CCLXX1V. THERE was an old woman of Norwich,Who lived upon nothing but porridge;Parading the town,She turned cloak into gown,This thrifty old woman of Norwich. •/ CCLXXV. A LITTLE old man of Derby,How do you think he served me ?He took away my bread and cheese,And that is how he served me. CCLXXVl. THERE was an old woman in Surrey, * \Vlio, Avas morn, noon, and night in a hurry;Calld her husband a fool,Drove the children to school, The worrying old woman of TENTH CLASS— GAMES.— * :e j • — CCLXXVII. [Rliymes used }>y children to decide wlio is to be*ia a game.] t , two-cry,Ziccary zan ; Hollow bone, crack a bone,Ninerv, ten : i/ * Spittery spot, It must be done ;Twiddleum twaddleum, Twenty-one. GAMES. J 55 Hink spink, the puddings stink, The fat begins to fry,Nobody at home, but jumping Joan, Father, mother, and , stock, stone dead, Blind man cant see,Every knave will have a slave, You or I must be he. CCLXXVIII. [A game of the Fox. In a childrens game, where all the little actors arsseated ir a circle, the following stanza is used as question and WHO goes round my house this night ? None but cruel Tom !Who steals all the sheep at night ? None but this poor one. CCLXXIX. DANCE, Thumbkin, dance, [Keep the thumb in , ye merry men, every one: [All the fingers in Thumbkin, he can dance alone, [The thumb only , he can dance alone, [, F
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