Girls and boys, come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Leave your supper and leave your sleep,
And come with your playfellows into the
street.
Come with a whoop, come with a call,
Come with a good will or not at all
Up the ladder and down the wall,
A halfpenny roll will serve us all.
You find milk, and I'll find flour,
And we'll have a pudding in half an hour
A child hides something in one hand, and then places
both fists endways on each other, saying,—
Handy-dandy riddledy ro,
Which will you have, high or low?
Or sometimes the following,—
Handy-dandy, Jack-a-dandy,
Which good hand will you have?
The party addressed either touches one hand, or
guesses in which one the article (whatever it may be) is
placed. If he guesses rightly, he wins its contents; if
wrongly, he loses an equivalent.
