Nursery Rhyme. CCCLVI. Games.

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

    Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn,
    Pinnikin, Pinnikin, stole the corn.
    Long back'd Gray
    Carried it away.
    Old Mid-man sat and saw,
    But Peesy-weesy paid for a'.

        [Rhymes used by children to decide who is to begin a game.]

    One-ery, two-ery,
        Ziccary zan;
    Hollow bone, crack a bone,
        Ninery, ten:
    Spittery spot,
        It must be done;
    Twiddleum twaddleum,
        Twenty-one.

    Hink spink, the puddings stink,
        The fat begins to fry,
    Nobody at home, but jumping Joan,
        Father, mother, and I.
    Stick, stock, stone dead,
        Blind man can't see,
    Every knave will have a slave,
        You or I must be he.

    Tip, top, tower,
    Tumble down in an hour.

    Intery, mintery, cutery-corn,
    Apple seed and apple thorn;
    Wine, brier, limber-lock,
    Five geese in a flock,
    Sit and sing by a spring,
    O-U-T, and in again.

        [A game on the fingers.]

    Heetum peetum penny pie,
    Populorum gingum gie;
    East, West, North, South,
    Kirby, Kendal, Cock him out!

        [Game with the hands.]

    Pease-pudding hot,
        Pease-pudding cold,
    Pease-pudding in the pot,
        Nine days old.
    Some like it hot,
        Some like it cold,
    Some like it in the pot,
        Nine days old.