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Counting out Rhymes  165

20

The vingle, the vangle,
The goose and the gander,
Come roly me bony brandy dip.

21

Two, four, six, eight,
Mary at the garden gate
Eating cherries off a plate,
Two, four, six, eight.

22

As I went up Salt Lake,
I met a little rattlesnake.
He e’t so much of ginger cake,
It made his little belly ache.

23

Onery, ary, dicory, seven,
Halibone, cralibone, ten or eleven,
Pe, po, must be done,
Twiggle, twaggle, twenty-one.

24

Engine number nine,
Stick your head in turpentine,
Turpentine make it shine,
Engine number nine.

25

Dickery, dickery, dare,
The pig flew up in the air;
The man in brown
Soon brought him down;
Dickery, dickery, dare.