What you got there?
I have been unsucessfully searching
for a reference to a word game (traditional and orally transmitted for
a number of generations) that I recall as a child. It was a question
and answer game and I remember most of it.
The game went like this
What you got there?
Bread and chees.
Where's my share?
In the woods?
Where's the woods?
Fire burnt it.
Where's the fire.
Water quenched it.
Where's the water?
Ox drank it.
Where's the ox?
Butcher killed it.
Where's the butcher?
Rope hung him.
Where's the rope?
Rat gnawed it.
Where's the rat?
Cat caught it.
Where's the cat?
Hammer killed it.
Where's the hammer?
Buried under the church
house step.
And the first person to
smile or show his teeth gets tickled and pinched!
For some reason this
was always funny by the time we got to the end, so it was likely that I
was read to smile or laugh. I am hazy about the exact end of the
"ditty". Any ideas where I can find some reference to others using this
same sort of game?
Mollie Lawson
<[email protected]>
Professor of Library Services
and Director of Technical
Services James C. Kirkpatrick Library
Central Missouri State University
Warrensburg, MO, USA
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