Castle, gloves. You don’t play!

Go on!

Kivi—a kettle. How are you?

Stáni, buck.

The common version of the rhyme begins with—

“One—ery—two—ery, ickery an.”

But one-ery is an exact translation of ek-keri; ek, or yek, meaning one in gypsy. (Ek-orus, or yek-korus, means once). And it is remarkable that in—

Hickory dickory dock,

The rat ran up the clock,

The clock struck one,