403. A scholar who came late to school was greeted by the other children with,

404.

A variant:

405.

406.

407.

Xis mad, and I am glad;

And I know how to please him,

A bottle of wine to make him shine,

And Y to squeeze him.2

The last name was usually that of some girl he disliked. 408. The following rhyme was said to Negroes:

Nigger, nigger, never die,
Black face and shiny eye;

Teapot nose and turned-up toes,
That's the way the nigger goes.3

409. The old and bitter antagonism between Orangeman and Catholic is reflected in the lines,

Teeter, totter,

Holy water,

Sprinkle the Catholics every one;

1 These two versions are found also in Brant County. (F. W. W.)

* Compare Perrow's "Songs and Rhymes of the South" (JAFL 26 : 154 [No. 22 and note]).

* Compare p. 61, No. 671; p. 166, No. 19.

A somewhat similar line occurs in a rhyme used by boys from Totley, in Derbyshire, England, to revile the boys from the neighboring hamlet of Dore (Addy, Household Tales and Traditional Remains, p. 131).

This is found in Brant County and elsewhere, but usually with the sentiment in the last two lines reversed. (F. W. W.)

4 Compare p. 46, No. 626.

• The other formula (cf. p. 42) is also used here.

415.

416.

One, two, three,
Out goes she.1

One, two, three,

The bumble-bee;

The rooster crows;

And away she goes.2

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
All good children go to heaven;

All bad children go below,

Keep company with Gooderow.3

TONGUE-TWISTERS.

417. Six, thick, thistle-sticks.

418. I slit the sheet, and the sheet slit me.2

419. Peter Pippen picked a peck of pickled peppers; and if Peter Pippen picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Pippen picked? 4

RIDDLES.

420. What goes round and round the house and makes but one track? A wheelbarrow.

421. What goes round and round the house and peeks in every window? - The sun.

Compare E. M. Wright, op. cit., p. 311; Westmoreland and Lancashire variants.

• See version in Mother Goose's book, p. 195.

425.

426.

Elizabeth, Eliza, Betsy, and Bess
Went to the woods to find a bird's nest.
They found a nest with four eggs in it;
Each took an egg apiece.

How many were left?

Three, all being names of one person.

Narrow at the bottom,

Wide at the top.1

A thing in the middle

Goes whipputy-whop.

Old-fashioned dash-churn.1

OTTAWA, CAN.

1 All the dash-churns I have ever seen were wide at the bottom, and narrow at the top.