Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXVII. Games.
[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.
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