Nursery Tales 215
Spell potato.
Put one o, put two o, put three o, put four o, put five o, put six o, put seven o, put eight o.
Spell Mississippi.
M-i-double s, i-double s, i:double p-i.
Spell backache.
B-a-c—k-a—c-h-e.
Spell huckleberry pie.
H-u, huckle; b-u, buckle; c-u, cuckle; y; huckleberry pie.
Spell Tennessee.
One a see, two a see, three a see, four a see, five a see, six a see, seven a see, eight a see, nine a see, Tennessee.
Spell pumpkin-pie.
P double-unkin, p double i; p double-unkin, punkin-pie.
When a company gathered for an evening, years ago, they sometimes amused themselves by spelling, or learning to spell, the phrase, “Abominable bumblebee with his tail cut off.” Here is the way they spelled it: “A, there’s your a; b-o, bo, there’s your bo and your a-bo; m-i, mī, there’s your mi, and your bo-mi, and your a-bo-mi; n-a, nā, there’s your na, and your mi-na, and your bo-mi-na, and a-bo-mi-na; b-l-e, ble (pronounced “bell”), there’s your ble, and your na--
