HITTY-TITTY.

Hitty-titty in-doors,

Hitty-titty out;

You touch Hitty-titty,

And Hitty-titty will bite you.

These lines are said by children when one of them has hid herself. They

then run away, and the one who is bitten (caught) becomes Hitty-titty,

and hides in her turn. A variation of the above lines occurs in MS.

Harl. 1962, as a riddle, the solution of which is _a nettle_.

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