m to be akin to the various cabala
of the German Pietists of Pennsylvania._

[TWELVE APOSTLES], as follows:

Twelve, twelve apostles,
Eleven, eleven, I went to heaven,
Ten, ten, commandments,
Nine bright lights a-shining,
Eight Gabel [Gabriel?] angels,
Seven stars a-hanging high,
Six, six go acymord,
Five all alone abroard,
Four scorn in Wackford,
Three of them are drivers,
Two of them are little lost babes,
Oh, my dear Savior,
One, one is left alone,
One to be left alone.

CLUB-FIST: A series of questions and answers concerning the fire, water,
ox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, etc.--each of which terms is destructive of
the preceding one. (Spoken.)

JOHN BROWN'S LITTLE INDIANS: An enumeration of his "Indians" from unity
upward, and thence back to unity again.

THE UNLUCKY YOUNG MAN, ii, 4aa and 4aaa3b, 13ca: He exchanges oxen for a
cow, the cow for a calf, the calf for a dog, the dog for a cat, the cat
for a rat, the rat for a mouse, which "took fire to her tail and burned
down the house."

OLD SAM SUCK-EGG, ii, 2aa, 10: He swaps his wife for a duck-egg, and
this for other commodities in turn, which rime with each preceding line,
until he has lost all. (Spoken.)

[I BOUGHT ME A HORSE], 4aa and cumulative refrain of animal cries: In
each couplet a new purchase of some common animal or fowl is made, while
each succeeding refrain gathers up cumulative-fashion the cries made by
each succeeding addition to the collection.

ONE, TWO, COME BUCKLE MY SHOE, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines,
each containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.)

XVII.

_This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, "frolickings,"
and movement-games of Kentucky._

CHARLIE, ii, 4a3b4c3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie,
the dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc.

BLUEBIRD, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless, endless improvisation, in which
are woven the "calls" of the dance, beginning:

Yonder goes the bluebird through the window
Down in Tennessee.

THE RAILROAD, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally
different, beginning:

Out on the railroad, O Jubilee,
Waiting for my darling, O Jubilee.

THE BOATMAN, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning:

Here she sits in her sad station.

LONG SUMMER DAY, ii: In general form and function like the above,
beginning