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78 3. If you walk nine times round Neville's Cross, and put your ear to the ground, you will hear the noise of the battle.

4. The nip for new clothes must be given before twelve o'clock.

(Said while bouncing a ball, and told me by a nurse-maid, native of York. She told us a tale like the "Three Bears," but called them three Trolls or Drolls.)

[—This rhyme reminds me of one I heard as a child in the North of Ireland, I think at Rostrevor or Newry. It was there treated as an appendix to "Sing a song of sixpence," which ended with the words:

I have forgotten what followed. M. L. D.]