The Press., 1885-10-08

school-house. The children were out at recess as we drove ilp, and heard one of them shout: ''Let's play wood-tag. Who'll be the catcher?
 Little-boy-driving cattle
 Don't-y hear his-money- rattle
 Cross s-grained- children -always-pont-
 When-o-u-t-spells-out
 ''There you're it, Jane Webber run !" ''How commonplace that rhyme IS be- side the one we used to say when was child" remarked one of my companions. sThere is something weird and mysterious about this now: &8|
 'Onery-nory-i -ickary- Ann f
 Fillosy -fallosy- Nicholas Es
 Queever-quover-Irish Nora &
 Stinlum- -stanlum- buck ,"
 ''And something fascinating and attract i've in the familiar,
 'Hinty- -minty -cuty corn E. Apple-seed-and-apple- thorn
 Wire-brier-limber-lock
 Five-geese- -in-a-fock-
 Sit-and-sing- -by-a-spring,
 Then-you're-out. In-again.
 Strike Jack, kiss Tom S y@l
 Blow the bellows-old man
 Out-out-out .'" said the minister's wife, sitting down on on the broad door-stone, and thus suggest ing the fact to the whole society" that the green, maple-shaded yard was more attractive than the big square parlor.
 "When was child" said very old lady, ''one of my teachers taught us as 8 pronouncing exercise to spell 'Hypo-piro- ran tan terry perry sack ville-north- hill nor row do -ding-dong- -whack.' As each word was spelled, pronouncing each word from the beginning and it soon became a counting out rhyme with us, and as such have taught it to my children and grand children f5 EE$SS "We used to say the Indian words for counting twenty, mp in Southern Vermont, where came from, " said another old lady ]; Git runs this way,-I don't suppose have repeated it for twenty years, but we never forget those things, you know: <.. sz Eene-teene-tethers-fea Loiters-q quarters poor-debry- dick Eene dick teene dick tethers dick-feathers-
 dick bump
 Eene bump teene bump tethers- bump feath-
 ers-bump- mp-fbbett.'
 "Further than this the red man did not count. They reckoned everything by fib- betts,-fve ibbetts being one hundred" "I lived in Canada among the French Catholics, when I was a child," said a bright-faced little woman, ''and those chil- dren used to say this rigmarole in their games
 'One's all-twos all-zigs alIzan z
 Blick- -black-venegar-t tickle and tan | ~
 Hear-em-skeer- en- Virgin Marum
 Te-tam-buck.'
 ''In Pennsylvania we used to say: 'Quillery -quallery -quollery-zee ss
 have grandmother over the sea
 She has focks, but you have none,
 Go then and bring the children home" said another lady.
 "How many such rhymes they used to have in the old times, said. a middle-aged woman, who had looked much interested all along. "I suppose it was because there were fewer books. When was very lit tie girl my grandfather taught me to rise and fall the notes, singing and marking in this way; ;" and reaching over she took 8 pencil and note- book from the hand of a lady sitting near, and sang softly, marking as she did SO: l 'Alla'ong, allalong, allalong, allalong, Allalong, allalong, langtyla. Langtyla's very fine song, Langtyla's very fine song, l I will lay wager with you ....- -.... That all these lines %F &@-'E Count thirty and two.'" "Count the marks, please she said handing the notebook back. "Thirty-two, indeed" replied the lady 'sand now you must sing 1t again and lei me write the jingle down. ssThat reminds me of a song used to hear sung at school" said woman with baby, and she sung, to the little one's delight
 sI'll sing you song, nine verses long,
 For pin.
 One-two-t three -four-fye-six six-seven-eight-n
 You're goose and the pin is mine.'
 Said another woman: .sI never shall forget Uncle 'Neezer, simple minded old man, who lived at the poor farm, who used to delight us school children by spelling, An Abominable, Rumble bee with his tai cut off. He used to sit out under an ap pie tree, and day after day we gathered around him and heard him begin An an, there's your an; q, there's your and your Ana; b-o-m-bom, there's your bon and your An-a-bom; an, an, there's youi an and your bom-an- and your a-bom-an and your ana bom- an-; a, there's your & 4 and your bom-an-a- and your a-bom- -an-a and your An-a-bom- ana b-l-e-ble- there's your ble- and your able. and your ana ble- and your bonn -an-a-b ble- and a-bom- -all able, and your An-a-bom- -an-a-ble; ani so on. believe the bell always rang be fore the whole feat was accomplished but 'Neezer insisted he could go through the whole without stumble if only time enough was given him; and he also lin sisted that no schoolmarm was fit to keel school until she was ableto keep her place in going through that complicated piece of spelling without tripping"
 How well remember the girl, even te the color of the ribbon that tied the braidt of her red hair, who taught me to count out my apple-seeds after my apple had been named: One love, two I love three love say, four I love with all my heart, five is cast away. Six he loves seven she loves, eight they both love Nine he comes, ten he tarries, eleven lie courts, and twelve he marries, said the minister's wife; and the doctors wife went on, laughing heartily. ssThe gir who classed us all according to the nun Der of buttons on our clothes marks an