Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages

by Unknown

So—course the World over:

Then homeward again.

[84]. "Whatever they find they take it." (line 21)

There was a robber met a robber

On a rig of beans;

Says a robber to a robber,

"Can a robber tell a robber

What a robber means?"

And if not; why not? I had never seen this scrap of jingle until Mr. Ralph Hodgson gave it me. And the following version of an old game rhyme (with its rare "wood") first met my eye by the kindness of another friend, Mrs. Lyon: