Nursery Rhyme. CCCIV. Games.

    Tom Brown's two little Indian boys,
        One ran away,
        The other wouldn't stay, -
    Tom Brown's two little Indian boys.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXCIII. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXCI. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXXVII. Songs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLI. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXIX. Games.

        [An exercise during which the fingers of the child are enumerated.]

    Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXVI. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXVIII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCIX. Games.

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