9, 10,
I let her go again."

Counting-out rhyme.

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"Great | A was a | larm'd at | B's bad be | haviour,
Be | cause C | D, E, F de | nied G a | favour;
H had a | husband with | I, J, | K and L;
M married | Mary, and | taught | her scholars | how to spell
A B C, D E F G, H I J K L M,
N O P Q, R S T U, V W X Y Z, Z, Z."

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"Hush-a-by, baby, on a green bock (Saxon for bough);
When the wind blows the cradle will rock."

A NURSERY TALE.

"I saddled my sow with a sieve of butter-milk, put my foot into the
stirrup, and leaped up nine miles beyond the moon into the land of
temperance, where there was nothing but hammers and hatchets and
candlesticks, and there lay bleeding Old Noll. I let him lie and sent
for Old Hipper Noll, and asked him if he could grind green steel five
times finer than wheat flour. He said he could not. Gregory's wife was
up a pear tree gathering nine corns of buttered beans to pay St. James's
rent. St. James was in a meadow mowing oat cakes; he heard a noise, hung
his scythe to his heels, stumbled at the battledore, tumbled over the
barn door ridge, and broke his shins against a bag of moonshine that
stood behind the stairs-foot door; and if that isn't true, you know as
well as I all about it."

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"A duck, a drake, a barley cake,
A penny to pay the baker;
A hop, a scotch, another notch--
Slitherum, slitherum, take her."

A verse repeated when playing at skimming shells or stones on the water
of a pond or lake.

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"Hark! hark! the dogs do bark,
The beggars are coming to town.
There are some in rags,
There are some in tags,
And one in a velvet gown."

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"Bow-wow-wow,
Whose dog art thou?
I'm Tommy Tucker's dog,
Bow-wow-wow!"

Pope wrote an epigram which he had engraved on the collar of a dog, and
gave it to H.R.H.:--

"I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"

A B C JINGLES.

"A was an Archer that shot at a frog,
B was a Butcher--he had a big dog,
C was a Captain all covered with lace,
D was a Dunce with a very long face."

"A was an apple pie;
B bit it,
C cut it,
D danced for it,
E eat it,
F f