Rhymes and Jingles 177
The following is a programme for Thanksgiving week:—
Monday—wash,
Tuesday—scour,
Wednesday—bake,
Thursday—devour.
In a game of tag, it is the proper thing to shout out to the one in chase:—
Fire on the mountain,
Fire on the sea,
You can’t catch me.
A variation:—
Fire on the mountain,
Run, boys, run;
The cat’s in the cream-pot,
Run, girls, run!
A quick way of counting up to one hundred:—
Ten, ten, double ten, forty-five, fifteen.
William Blake, William Austin, and William Bond all lived in the same town. This fact inspired some local poet with the following strains, that proved quite popular among the young people:—
