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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXIX. Games.

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Dance, Thumbkin, dance,                     [Keep the thumb in motion.         Dance, ye merrymen, every one:                     [All the fingers in motion.         For Thumbkin, he can dance alone,                     [The thumb only moving.         Thumbkin, he can dance alone,                     [Ditto.         Dance, Foreman, dance,                     [The first finger moving.         Dance, ye merrymen, every one;                     [The whole moving.         But Foreman, he can dance alone,         Foreman, he can dance alone.             [and So on With the Others - naming the 2d Finger Longman - the 3d Finger Ringman - and the 4th Finger Littleman. Littleman Cannot Dance Alone.]

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