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2. There was an old woman and she went two, She went nick-nock up against a shoe.

3. There was an old woman and she went three, She went nick-nock up against a tree.

4. There was an old woman and she went four, She went nick-nock up against a door.

5. There was an old woman and she went five, She went nick-nock up against a hive.

6. There was an old woman and she went six, She went nick-nock up against some sticks.

7. There was an old woman and she went seven, She went nick-nock up against eleven.

8. There was an old woman and she went eight, She went nick-nock up against a gate.

9. There was an old woman and she went nine, She went nick-nock up against a line.

10 There was an old woman and she went ten, She went nick-nock up against a hen. (Communicated by Miss Margaret Murray, who learnt it from an old servant, a native of Luton, who, as a child, had heard it sung by a very old woman there.)

Gloucestershire.

The DeviFs Churchyard. — On Sunimershall Downs there is a deep entrenchment, where Danes and Saxons fought up to the fetlocks of their horses in blood. The place is called the Devil's Churchyard, because there is the ruin of a church, which was built all right till the walls were six feet high. After that it was pulled down each night, and at last the building was given up. There are the ruins to this day. (From an old Gloucestershire man in Leominster Workhouse, igoS.)

Herefordshire.

Cliarms atid Spells. — Mr. C. G. Portman writes that he was cycling lately in the neighbourhood of Hay, on the Welsh border,