IDDLE MAKING--German riddle of "Seven White and Seven
Black Horses"--Greek riddle of the Two Sisters; another
of "The year, months, and days"--"Old Mother
Needle"--"Purple, yellow, red, and green"--"As round as
an Apple"--"Humpty Dumpty"--The Ph[oe]nix
fable--"Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home" 127

IX. NURSERY CHARMS--"When a twister twisting twists him a
twist"--An Essex Charm for a Churn--"Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John" Charms.

MONEY RHYMES--"How a lass gave her lover three slips
for a tester"--"Little Mary Esther"--"Sing a Song of
Sixpence"--"There was an old man in a velvet
coat"--"See-saw"--"One a penny"--"There's never a
maiden in all the town"--"Pinky, pinky,
bow-bell"--Numerical Nursery Rhyme--Baker's Man 134

X. SCRAPS--"Oh, slumber, my darling, thy sire is a
knight"--"Bye, baby bumpkin"--"Nose, nose, jolly red
nose"--"I saw a man in the moon"--A Henry VIII.
Rhyme--"Peg-Peg"--"Round about"--"Father
Long-legs"--"Two-penny rice"--"Come when you're
called"--A Game--"Nanny Natty Coat"--"As I was going
down Sandy Lane"--"There was an old woman"--"Robert
Rowley"--"Little General Monk"--"Dr. Tom Tit"--"Tommy
Trot"--"Goosey Gander"--"The White Dove sat on the
Castell Wall"--"This Little Pig"--"Little Bo
Peep"--"See-saw, Margery Daw"--"Four-and-twenty
Tailors"--"Little Moppet"--"Hub-a-dub, dub"--"Diddle
Dumpling"--"Jack and Jyll"--"The Cat and the
Fiddle"--"Baa! baa! black sheep"--"Here comes a poor
Duke out of Spain"--"Ride to the
market"--"Cross-patch"--"The Man of the South"--A
Lancashire Fragment--"Dickery dock"--"There was an old
woman toss'd up in a blanket"--"We're all in the
dumps"--A Proverb--A Compliment--The Reverse 141

XI. SONGS--"Will the love that you're so rich
in?"--"Cock-a-doodle doo"--"King Cole"--"Rowsty
dowt"--"There was a Little Man"--The Creole's
Song--"Dapple Grey"--"Blue Betty"--"Tom, Tom, the
Piper's Son"--"Oh dear, what can the matter
be?"--"Simple Simon"--"I saw a Ship a-sailing"--"David
the Welshman"--"My Father he Died" 152

XII. SCOTCH RHYMES--"As I went up the Brandy Hill