186 Rhymes and Jingles
A girl stood by all dressed in blue,
A verse for a small boy:—
Fishy, fishy, in the brook,
Papa catch him with a hook,
Mama fry him in a pan,
Georgy eat him fast’s he can.
The last line sometimes ends, “like a man.”
The last two lines may also be changed to read: —
Mama fry him in the spider,
Georgy eat him like a tiger.
The boy’s name can be varied to suit the speaker.
One way of counting to ten:—
Onery, twoery, fithery, sithery, san,
Wheelerbone, whackerbone, inery, ninery, tan.
A verse said by a boy who parts from his companion in the evening:—
Good-night,
Sleep tight,
Don’t let the bedbugs bite.
A political couplet shouted by school-boys:—
