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Rh Sometimes the nurse, having taken off the little one's shoes and socks, would turn its feet to the fire and say:

Another well-known way of amusing a little child is to pat its hands or feet, and repeat:

An equally popular amusement was to seat a child on your crossed foot, and repeat:

The following variant has a more rustic sound.

These rhymes were especially in vogue in those games, Mr. Gosse says, in which one lad was set in antagonism to the rest, or had to be "he" as it was termed, such as the game of "touch," where the