"Ten little, nine little, eight little, seven little, Six little acorn girls!" Until it was reduced to una glandula et nulla fit--"then there was none." They too had heard their elders repeat it as a charm against the jaw-ache--and can any man in his senses doubt that they applied it in turn to the divine witchcraft of fun and the sublime sorcery of sport, which are just as magical and wonderful in their way as anything in all theurgia or occultism, especially when the latter is used only to excite marvels and the amazement which is only a synonym for amusement. But it is not credible that such a palpable "leaving out" song as that of the Ten Little Acorn Girls should not having been utilized by such intelligent children as grew up into being the conquerors of the world--"knowing Latin at that." There is yet another old Roman "wonderful song to the Acorns," apparently for the same disorder, given by the same author. "Albula glandula, Nec doleas nec noceas. Nec paniculas facias, Sed liquescas tanquam salis (mica) in aqua! "Hoc ter novies dicens spues ad terram et glandulas ipsas pollice et digito medicinali perduces, dum carmen dices, sedante solis ortum et post occasum facies id, prout dies aut nox minuetur." There appears in these formulas to be either a confusion or affinity as regards glandulas, the tonsils, and the same word signifying small acorns. As is very often the case, the similarity of name caused an opinion that there must be sympathetic curative qualities. Perhaps acorns were also used in this ceremony. In a comment on this Grimm remarks: "Die Glandula wird angeredet, die Glandulæ gelten fur Schwestern, wie wenn das alt hoch-deutsch druos glandula (Graff 5, 263) personification ankündigte? Alt Nordisch ist drôs, femina." There is another child's rhyme which is self-evidently drawn from an exorcism, that is to say an incantation. All my readers know the nursery song:-- "Snail, snail, come out of your hole, Or else I'll beat you as black as a coal! Snail, snail, put out your head, Or else I'll beat you till you are dead!"