Volume Ii Part 80 (1/2)

Don't steal any of my fat chicks.

I stole one last night And gave it a little hay, There came a little blackbird, And carried it away.

-Bocking, Ess.e.x (_Folk-lore Record_, iii. 170).

IX. Who's that round my stable door [or stony wall]?

Only little Jack and Jingo.

Don't you steal any of my fat pigs!

I stole one last night and the night before, Chick, chick, come along with me.

-Deptford, Kent (Miss Chase).

X. Who's this walking round my stony gravel path?

Only little Jacky Jingle.

Last night he stole one of my sheep, Put him in the fold, Along came a blackbird, and pecked off his nose.

-Hamps.h.i.+re (Miss Mendham).

XI. Who is going round my fine stony house?

Only Daddy Dingo.

Don't take any of my fine chicks.

Only this one, O!

-Ellesmere (Burne's _Shrops.h.i.+re Folk-lore_, p. 520).

XII. Who is that walking round my stone-wall?

Only little Johnnie Nero.

Well, don't you steal any of my fat sheep!

I stole one last night and gave it a lock of hay, Here come I to take another away.

-Sporle, Norfolk (Miss Matthews).

XIII. Who's that going round my pretty garden?

Only Jacky Jingo.

Don't you steal any of my fat sheep!

Oh, no I won't; oh, yes I will; and if I do I'll take them one by one, so out comes Jacky Jingo.

-Ogbourne, Wilts. (H. S. May).

XIV. Who's going round my sheepfold?

Only poor Jack Lingo.

Don't steal any of my black sheep!

No, I won't, only buy one.

-Roxton, St. Neots (Miss E. Lumley).

XV. Who goes round my house this night?

None but Limping Tom.

Do you want any of my chickens this night?