Fun for the Household: A Book of Games

by Emma J. Gray

25. Give numerical poetry.

Any verse that is familiar counting as example:

Shuffle-Shoon (one) and (two) Amber-Locks (three)

Sit (four) together (five) building (six) blocks (seven)

Shuffle-Shoon (eight) is (nine) old (ten) and (eleven) gray (twelve)

Amber-Locks (thirteen) a (fourteen) little (fifteen) child (sixteen)

But (seventeen) together (eighteen) at (nineteen) their (twenty) play (twenty-one)

Age (twenty-two) and (twenty-three) youth (twenty-four) are (twenty-five) reconciled (twenty-six)

And (twenty-seven) with (twenty-eight) sympathetic (twenty-nine) glee (thirty)

Build (thirty-one) their (thirty-two) castles (thirty-three) fair (thirty-four) to (thirty-five) see (thirty-six).