Posted by Sigismund on October 20, 2007, at 15:48:25
In reply to Re: do hospitals ever help? » alienatari, posted by Squiggles on October 20, 2007, at 7:21:26
Children's counting story, perhaps.
>Chief Broom mentioned this in the book; he comments that it was a game he would play with his grandmother when he was a child:
Tingle, tingle, tremble toes
She's a good fisherman
Catches hens
Puts 'em in pens
Some lay eggs.
Some lay none.
Wire, blier, limer lock
Three geese inna flock
One flew east,
One flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
O-U-T spells out
Goose swoops down and plucks you out
This is variant of the William Matrimmatoe chant:William Matrimmatoe
He's a good fisherman.
He catches hens,
Puts them in pens.
Some lay eggs.
Some lay none.
William Matrimmatoe
He's a good fisherman.
Wire, briar, limber, lock.
Three geese in a flock.
One flew east.
One flew west.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Wire, briar, limber, lock.
Out goes you, old dirty dish rag, you.
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