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Collectanea.

3. If you walk nine times round Neville's Cross, and put your ear to the ground, you will hear the noise of the battle.

4. The nip for new clothes must be given before twelve o'clock.

There was a man of double deed,
Who sowed his garden full of seed;
When the seed began to grow,
Like a garden full of snow;
When the snow began to melt.
Like a ship without a belt;
When the ship began to sail,
Like a bird without a tail;
When the bird began to fly,
Like an eagle in the sky;
When the sky began to fall,
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(Said while bouncing a ball, and told me by a nurse-maid, native of York. She told us a tale like the "Three Bears," but called them three Trolls or Drolls.)


[Note.—This rhyme reminds me of one I heard as a child in the North of Ireland, I think at Rostrevor or Newry. It was there treated as an appendix to "Sing a song of sixpence," which ended with the words:

Molly in the garden spreading out the clothes,
When up came a blackbird and nipped off her nose.
The nose began to bleed,
Like a garden full of seed;
The seed began to grow,
Like a garden full of snow;
The snow began to melt . . .
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I have forgotten what followed. M. L. D.]

Snaily snail, put out your horn.
And then I'll give you a barley corn.(Same.)