Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXXIII. Jingles.

"[The following lines are sung by children when starting for a race.]         Good horses, bad horses,             What is the time of d"

"[Children hunting bats.]         Bat, bat, (clap hands,)         Come under my hat,             And I'll give you a slice of bacon;"

"There was an old woman,             And she sold puddings and pies;         She went to the mill,             And the dust flew in her eyes"

"Little Tom Tittlemouse,         Lived in a bell-house;         The bell-house broke,         And Tom Tittlemouse woke."

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"