tanes
And was brought milk-white hame.
[Corn sent to the mill and ground.]

A beautiful lady in a garden was laid,
Her beauty was fair as the sun;
In the first hour of her life she was made a man's wife,
And she died before she was born.
[Eve.]

The minister, the dominie, and Mr. Andrew Lang,
Went to the garden where three pears hang:
Each one took a pear--how many pears then?
[Two: the three persons were one.]

Mou'd like the mill-door, luggit like the cat;
Though ye guess a' day, ye'll no guess that.
[An old-fashioned kail-pot.]

There stands a tree at our house-end,
It's a' clad owre wi' leather bend:
It'll fecht a bull, it'll fecht a bear,
It'll fecht a thousand men o' wear.
[Death.]

Lang man legless,
Gaed to the door staffless:
Goodwife, put up your deuks and hens;
For dogs and cats I carena.
[A worm.]

As I gaed to Falkland to a feast,
I met me wi' an ugly beast:
Ten tails, a hunder nails,
And no a fit but ane.
[A ship.]

As I cam' owre the tap o' Trine,
I met a drove o' Highland swine:
Some were black, and some were brawnet,
Some o' them was yellow tappit.
Sic a drove o' Highland swine
Ne'er cam' owre the tap o' Trine.
[A swarm of bees.]

Infir taris, inoknonis;
Inmudeelis, inclaynonis.
Canamaretots?

[In fir tar is, in oak none is;
In mud eel is, in clay none is.
Can a mare eat oats?]

Wee man o' leather
Gaed through the heather,
Through a rock, through a reel,
Through an auld spinning-wheel,
Through a sheep-shank bane.
Sic a man was never seen.
Wha had he been?
[A beetle.]

The robbers cam' to our house
When we were a' in;
The house lap out at the windows,
And we were a' ta'en.
[Fish caught in a net.]

COUNTING-OUT RHYMES.

The use of doggerel rhymes by children in playing their out-of-door
games, to decide by the last word which of their number shall be "it" or
"takkie," in games like "Hide and Seek" and "I Spy," must be familiar to
every reader who has had any youth worthy of being so called. What is
not well