Ricket, racket, find it, tack it,

And niver give it to the aunder.

Or, sometimes the following:

No halfers,

Findee, keepee;

Lossee, seekee.

Boys leaving the schoolroom are accustomed to shout—

Those that go my way, butter and eggs,

Those that go your way, chop off their legs.

A sort of persuasive inducement, I suppose, for them to follow the speaker for the sake of forming a party for a game.

[XI.—NURSERY-SONGS.]

The earliest and simplest form in which the nursery song appears is the lullaby, which may be defined a gentle song used for the purpose of inducing sleep. The term was generally, though not exclusively, confined to nurses:

Philomel, with melody

Sing in our sweet lullaby;

Lulla, lulla, lullaby;

Lulla, lulla, lullaby.