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140 Brack the barn,

Steal the corn,

Rin awa',

Telia',

Little moosie ran in o' a hole i' the wa'."

Some touch only the fingers as the following formula shows:—

Holland has several formulæ on the fingers.

Compare with this amusement the Spanish one of El Huevo, the Portuguese one Nomes dos ded, and the Sicilian one of Chistu havi fami.

Compare also Formulettes des Doigts.

2.—""

The following is applied to either the fingers or toes:—

3.—"."

In this amusement the mother or nurse opens the child's hand, and holds it in her own, and makes as if counting money into the child's hand, repeating the words. When the last line is reached the hand is closed, and at times some little thing put into it:—

John Prott an's man T' the market they ran,

They bocht, they saul',

Doon the money they taul'." (Mrs. Scott, Aberdour.)