CLXXXVII. OLD Betty Blue Lost a holiday shoe, What can old Betty do? To match the other, And then she may swagger in two. CLXXXVIII. [The following is part of a comic song called 'Success to the Whistle and Wig,' intended to be sung in rotation by the members of a club.] THERE was an old woman had three sons, Jerry, and James, and John: Jerry was hung, James was drowned, John was lost and never was found, CLXXXIX. [The first two lines of the following are the same with those of a song in D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy,' vol. v, p. 13.] THERE was an old woman Lived under a hill, And sent it to mill; The miller did swear, By the point of his knife, He never took toll Of a mouse in his life! CXC. [The tale on which the following story is founded is found in a MS. of the fifteenth century in the Chetham Library at Manchester, and printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. ii, p. 196.] THERE was an old man, who lived in a wood, As you may plainly see; He said he could do as much work in a day, With all my heart, the old woman said, To-morrow you'll stay at home in my stead, But you must milk the Tidy cow, And you must mind the speckled hen, For fear she lay away; And you must reel the spool of yarn The old woman took a staff in her hand, And Tidy gave him such a blow, That the blood ran down to his toes High! Tidy! ho! Tidy! high! "Twill be sore against my will ! He went to mind the speckled hen, So he swore by the sun, the moon, and the stars, If his wife didn't do a day's work in her life, She should ne'er be ruled by he. CXCI. THERE was an old man of Tobago, His physician said this "To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go." CXCII. Он, dear, what can the matter be? Two old women got up in an apple tree; One came down, And the other staid till Saturday. TENTH CLASS-GAMES. CXCIII. [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, Stick, stock, stone dead, Blind man can't see, Every knave will have a slave, CXCIV. [From Bracebridge Hall,' 8vo, London, 1822, vol. ii, p. 37. A Fox. In a children's game, where all the little actors are seated in a circle, the following stanza is used as question and answer:] WHO goes round my house this night? None but bloody Tom! Who steals all the sheep at night? None but this poor one. CXCV. GAY go up and gay go down, Bull's eyes and targets, Say the bells of St. Marg'ret's. Brickbats and tiles, Say the bells of St. Giles'. Halfpence and farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. |