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176 For King George's sake. If you won't give us one, We'll take two; Then ricket a racket Your door shall go.

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This is the Oxfordshire song chanted by the boys when collecting sticks for the bonfire, and it is considered quite lawful to appropriate any old wood they can lay their hands on after the recitation of these lines. If it happen that a crusty chuff prevents them, the threatening finale is too often fulfilled. The operation is called going a progging, but whether this is a mere corruption of prigging, or whether progging means collecting sticks (brog, Scot. Bor.), I am unable to decide." {{right|J. O. Halliwell, Popular Rhymes, 1849, pp. 253-4.] {{nop}} {{smallrefs}}