—Girl’s fingers milking.
Canadian, Ontario: JAFL 31:67:
Ink, ank you bank,
Ten drawing four.
[128] Cf. West Highlands (Campbell), 412:
Four shaking and four running,
Two finding the way and one roaring.
Catalan (and see notes):
CXLVI. Dos puntxets,
dos ullets,
quatre massas
y una escombra.
Filipino (Starr):
a) Four posts, one whip, two fans and two bolos.
b) Four earth-posts, two air-posts and whip.
c) One pointing, two moving, four changing.
[129] Cf. No. 65, p. 190.
Irish Folk-lore Riddles, 68:
Chip, chip cherry and all the men in Derry,
Wouldn’t climb the walls of chip, chip cherry.
[130] Cf. Holme riddles, 225:
(44) what is that that goes round about the house and stands behind the
door.
Irish Folk-lore Riddles:
I go round the house upstairs and downstairs and sleep at night in a
corner.
[131] Cf. Porto Rican (Mason and Espinosa):
179. Debajo de un come, come estaba un dorme, dorme; cayó el come,
come, y despertó el dorme, dorme; se levantó el dorme, dorme y se comió
al come, come.
—El coco y el que se lo come.
New-Mexican Spanish, 336:
Durmilis Durmilis está durmiendo,
Martiris Martiris está llegando
Si no fuera por Cominis Cominis
Durmilis Durmilis estuviera muerto.
[132] Cf. Irish Folk-lore Riddles:
As I went out a hazeum-gazeum
I saw a shrinkum-pinkum
Carrying away kum-painy.
—A fox stole a goose at night.
Holme riddles, 233:
(108) As j went through my houter touter houter perly j saw one Mr.
higamgige com over the hill of parley but if j had my tarly berly,
tarly berly berly j would have bine met with Mr. Higamgige come over
the hill of parley.
—A man going ou’ a hill a flee flew over his head.
(237) As j went over Hottery Tottery, etc.
Popular Rhymes of Scotland (Chambers), 113:
Ha! master above a master, etc.
Catalan: