[The game of water-skimming is of high antiquity, being mentioned by Julius Pollux, and also by Eustathius, in his commentary upon Homer. Brand quotes a curious passage from Minucius Felix; but all antiquaries seem to have overlooked the very curious notice in Higgins' adaptation of Junius's 'Nomenclator,' 8vo, London, 1585, p. 299, where it is called "a duck and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake." Thus it is probable that lines like the following were employed in this game as early as 1585; and it may be that the last line has recently furnished a hint to Mathews in his amusing song in 'Patter _v_. Clatter.'] A duck and a drake, A nice barley-cake, With a penny to pay the old baker; A hop and a scotch, Is another notch, Slitherum, slatherum, take her. CCXCV. See, Saw, Margery Daw, Sold her bed and lay upon straw; Was not she a dirty slut, To sell her bed and lie in the dirt! CCXCVI. See, saw, Margery Daw, Little Jackey shall have a new master; Little Jackey shall have but a penny a day, Because he can't work any faster. CCXCVII. 1. I am a gold lock. 2. I am a gold key. 1. I am a silver lock. 2. I am a silver key. 1. I am a brass lock. 2. I am a brass key. 1. I am a lead lock. 2. I am a lead key. 1. I am a monk lock. 2. I am a monk key! CCXCVIII. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross, To buy little Johnny a galloping-horse; It trots behind, and it ambles before, And Johnny shall ride till he can ride no more. CCXCIX. Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross, To see what Tommy can buy; A penny white loaf, a penny white cake, And a twopenny apple-pie. CCC. Jack be nimble, And Jack be quick: And Jack jump over The candle-stick. CCCI. [This should be accompanied by a kind of pantomimic dance, in which the motions of the body and arms express the process of weaving; the motion of the shuttle, &c.] Weave the diaper tick-a-tick tick, Weave the diaper tick-- Come this way, come that As close as a mat, Athwart and across, up and down, round about, And forwards, and backwards, and inside, and out; Weave the diaper thick-a-thick thick, Weave the diaper thick! CCCII. [Used in Somersetshire in counting out the game of pee-wip or pee wit.] One-ery, two-ery, hickary, hum, Fillison, follison, Nicholson, John, Quever, quauver, Irish Mary, Stenkarum, stankarum, buck! CCCIII. Whoop, whoop, and hollow, Good dogs won't follow, Without the hare cries "pee wit." CCCIV. Tom Brown's two little Indian boys, One ran away, The other wouldn't stay,-- Tom Brown's two little Indian boys. CCCV. There were two blackbirds, Sitting on a hill, The one nam'd Jack, The other nam'd Jill; Fly away Jack! Fly away Jill! Come again Jack! Come again Jill! CCCVI. Tip, top, tower, Tumble down in an hour. CCCVII.