n a cup.
I sent a letter to my love,
I lost it, I lost it!
I found it, I found it!
It burns, it scalds.

[Repeating the last words very rapidly, till she drops the
glove behind one of them, and whoever has the glove must
overtake her, following her exactly in and out till she
catches her. If the pursuer makes a mistake in the pursuit,
she loses, and the game is over; otherwise she continues the
game with the glove.]

CCCLV.

[In the following, the various parts of the countenance are
touched as the lines are repeated; and at the close the chin
is struck playfully, that the tongue may be gently bitten.]

Eye winker,
Tom Tinker,
Nose dropper.
Mouth eater,
Chin chopper,
Chin chopper.

CCCLVI.

Thumb bold,
Thibity-thold,
Langman,
Lick pan,
Mama's little man.

CCCLVII.

[A game of the fox.]

Fox a fox, a brummalary,
How many miles to Lummaflary? Lummabary.

A. Eight and eight, and a hundred and eight.
How shall I get home to night?

A. Spin your legs, and run fast.

[Illustration]

CCCLVIII.

[A Christmas custom in Lancashire. The boys dress themselves
up with ribands, and perform various pantomimes, after which
one of them, who has a blackened face, a rough skin coat, and
a broom in his hand, sings as follows.]

Here come I,
Little David Doubt;
If you don't give me money,
I'll sweep you all out.
Money I want,
And money I crave;
If you don't give me money,
I'll sweep you all to the grave!

CCCLIX.

[The following lines are said by the nurse when moving the
child's foot up and down.]

The dog of the kill,[*]
He went to the mill
To lick mill-dust:
The miller he came
With a stick on his back,--
Home, dog, home!
The foot behind,
The foot before:
When he came to a stile,
Thus he jumped o'er.

[Footnote *: That is, kiln.]

CCCLX.

[The following lines are repeated by the nurse when sliding
her hand down the child's face.]

My mother and your mother
Went over the way;
Said my mother to your mother,
It's chop-a-nose day!

[Illustration: _Paradox_]

ELEVENTH CLASS--PARADOXES.

CCCLXI.

[The following is quoted in Parkin's reply to Dr. Stukeley's
second number of 'Origines Roystonianae,' 4to, London, 1748, p.
vi.]

Peter White will ne'er