This rhyme is used by children nowadays when they try to beat in the same time:
“Sip, sap, say; sip, sap, say;
Lig in a nettle bed, while Mayday.”
THINGS TO DO
Gather tough branches of trees or shrubs that you have a right to use.
See if you can make them into splints for baskets.
Find a way of making brittle wood more tough.
Beat the stems with hammer stones so as to loosen the layers of wood.
Keep track of a tree or a shrub in your neighborhood during the year, and find out the best time of the year to gather its branches for baskets.