Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXXVI. Games.

[This game begins thus: Take this - What's this? - A gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog, & c.]         Twelve huntsmen with horns and hounds,         Hunting over other men's grounds!         Eleven ships sailing o'er the main,         Some bound for France and some for Spain:         I wish them all safe home again:         Ten comets in the sky,         Some low and some high;         Nine peacocks in the air,         I wonder how they all came there,         I do not know and I do not care;         Eight joiners in joiner's hall,         Working with the tools and all;         Seven lobsters in a dish,         As fresh as any heart could wish;         Six beetles against the wall,         Close by an old woman's apple stall;         Five puppies of our dog Ball,         Who daily for their breakfast call;         Four horses stuck in a bog,         Three monkeys tied to a clog;         Two pudding-ends would choke a dog.         With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog.