. The myths and fables of to-day; . manner therhymed formula, following, is employed incounting a child out : — One-ery, two-ery, ickery Ann,Fillicy, fallicy, Nicholas, John,Queever, quaver, English knaver,Stinckelum, stanckelum, Jericho, buck. A more simple counting-out rhyme is this: One, two, goes he (or she). Tit, tat, toe, is still another form, repeatedwith variations according to locality. These few examples may serve to showthat what the performers themselves regardonly as a simple expedient in the arrangingof their games, if they ever give the mattera thought, is really a su
. The myths and fables of to-day; . manner therhymed formula, following, is employed incounting a child out : — One-ery, two-ery, ickery Ann,Fillicy, fallicy, Nicholas, John,Queever, quaver, English knaver,Stinckelum, stanckelum, Jericho, buck. A more simple counting-out rhyme is this: One, two, goes he (or she). Tit, tat, toe, is still another form, repeatedwith variations according to locality. These few examples may serve to showthat what the performers themselves regardonly as a simple expedient in the arrangingof their games, if they ever give the mattera thought, is really a survival of the beliefin the efficacy of certain magical words, turnedinto rhyme, to propitiate success. If this idea The Folk-lore of Childhood 33 had not been instilled into our children bylong custom and habit, it is not believed thatthey would continue to repeat such unmean-ing drivel. Yet, as childish as it may seem,it advances us one step in solving the intri-cate problem in hand; for here, too, thechild is father to the WEATHER LORE Fair is foul, and foul is fair.—Shakespeare, ^ I ^HERE is a certain class of so-called-*- signs, that from long use have becomeso embedded in the every-day life of thepeople as to pass current with some as merewhimsical fancies, with others as possessinga real significance. At any rate, they cropout everywhere in the course of common con-versation. Most of them have been handeddown from former generations, while not afew exhale the strong aroma of the nativesoil itself. Of this class of familiar signs or omens,affecting only the smaller and more casualhappenings one may encounter from day to34 Weather Lore 35 day, or from hour to hour, those only will benoticed which seem based on actual super-stition. Many current weather proverbs accordso exactly with the observations of science asto exclude them from any such are simply the homely records of asimple folk, drawn from long experience ofnature in all her moods. As
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