[117] The French expression is the same, _l'être_ or _en être_. The Germans do not use an equivalent, but say to be _in_, to be _out_; _sein daran, sein daraus_. [118] An old way of arranging this is for each of the group to put a finger inside a hat, in order that the words may be told off on the fingers. [119] English _onery_, _twoery_, etc. The forms we give date back to about 1820, before the publication of the "Nursery Rhymes of England." There are numerous small variations. "_Virgin_ Mary" we have from informants in the Middle States; "_Irish_ Mary" was the common New England phrase. [120] This rhyme was used only by _girls_. Boys employed No. 2, and would have been laughed at for counting like girls. [121] Used by _boys_ in the western part of the town, where were the toll-house and negro settlement. [122] English rhymes: Oneery, twoery, ziccary, zan, Hollowbone, crackabone, ninery, ten--etc. [123] This class of formulas (Nos. 1 to 8) appear to be mere variations of the same type, a fact which does not prevent individual forms from exhibiting a wonderful permanence. We consider as identical a class of German formulas, very wide-spread and variable, thus: (_a._) Unichi, dunichi, tipel-te! Tibel, tabel, domine. (_b._) Eckati peckati zuchati me, Avi schavi domine. (_c._) Aeniga mäniga tumpel-ti, Tifel, tafel numine. (_d._) Anigl panigl subtrahi! Tivi tavi, domini. (_e._) Endeli bändeli deffendé, Gloria tibi domine. A rhyme quoted by Mr. Ellis from the _Millhill Magazine_ (a school paper), and credited to America, is similar: (_f._) Eeney, meeny, tipty te, Teena, Dinah, Domine. The following formulas from Transylvania are of a simpler type; the first is said to imitate the _Gipsy_, the second the _Magyar_, speech: (_g._) Unemi, dunemi, tronemi, ronemi, donemi, ronza, konza, jewla, dewla, tschok! (_h._) Aketum, täketum, tinum, tanum, ärsak, märsak, etc. We take the latter type to be a nearer approach to the original form. All sorts of intermediate stages can be observed from between these lists and the more complicated examples; but we find no signs of numbers above ten, as in the "Anglo-Cymric score." The Russian and Finnish tongues present similar rhymed lists, while many Italian rhymes are of like origin, though disguised and extended. [124] In North Germany: Ene tene mone mei, Paster Lone bone, strei, Ene fune herke berke, Wer? wie? wo? was? As this is but one case of identity out of many hundreds, we suppose the rhyme borrowed from the English. There are many German rhymes beginning "Ene mene mu," or similarly; but the variation of the first sounds is endless: ene dene, ene tene, ene mene, ente twente, entele mentele, ane tane, unig tunig, oringa loringa, etc.; by association or rhyme, any nursery song may be introduced, or the first words may be dropped.