no,
Hold fast--let go!
Scottie Malottie, the king o' the Jews,
Sell't his wife for a pair o' shoes;
When the shoes began to wear
Scottie Malottie began to swear.

In Dundee these lines are added to the "Eenity feenity" rhyme:--

Jock out, Jock in,
Jock through a hickle-pin.
Eetle-ottle, black bottle;
Eetle-ottle, out!

This, more commonly used as a test of truth-telling (little fingers
being linked while it is uttered), is also used on the East Coast as a
counting-out rhyme:--

I ring, I ring, a pinky!
If I tell a lie
I'll go to the bad place
Whenever I die.
White pan, black pan,
Burn me to death,
Tak' a muckle gully
And cut my breath.
Ten miles below the earth.
Amen!

But these all, of course, as already stated, have been delivered and
acted, as they are still, rather as a prelude to the more elaborate
games designed to follow than as a part of them, and to afford
designedly the opportunity of deciding emphatically who shall be "it" or
"takkie."

CHILDREN'S RHYME-GAMES.

When by the aid of the "chapping-out" rhyme it has been decided who
should be "it," the game to follow may be "Single Tig," "Cross Tig,"
"Burly Bracks Round the Stacks," "Pussie in the Corner," "Bonnety," "The
Tod and the Hounds," "I Spy," "Smuggle the Keg," "Booly Horn," "Dock,"
"Loup the Frog," "Foot and a Half," "Bools," "Pitch and Toss," or any
one of another dozen, all of which are essentially boys' games, and have
no rhymes to enliven their action. But if it is to be a game in which
both sexes may equally engage, or a game for girls alone, then almost
certainly there is a rhyme with it. Somehow girls have always been more
musical than boys, even as in their maturer years they are more
frequently the subject of song than their confreres of the sterner sex.
"Peever," "Tig," and "Skipping Rope," are indeed, so far as I can recall
at the moment, about all of the girls' commoner games which are played
without the musical accompaniment of line and verse. Their rhyme-games,
on the other hand, are legion, and embrace "A Dis, a Dis, a Green
Grass," "The Merry-Ma-Tanzie," "The Mulberry Bush," "Carry My Lady to
London," "I Dree I Droppit It," "Looby-Looby," and ever so many more.

Like the counting-out rhymes, the game-rhymes are found in only slightly
differing forms in widely divided countries and places. But ever alike,
they are neve