"'A candle here?'
'Over there.'
'A candle here?'
'Otherwhere.'
"'Candle, a candle!'
'Loss on loss.'
'Where is light?'
'In the Holy Cross.'"
For all these games, common to childhood the world over, have a
rhyming element in the Peninsula, where, indeed, the ordinary
intercourse of children often carries verses with it. For instance,
our youngsters are content with cries of "Tell-tale!" and
"Indian-giver!" but under similar provocation the fierce little
nurslings of Catholic Spain will sing:--
"Tell-tale! Tell-tale!
In hell you'll be served right,
All day fed on mouldy bread,
And pounded all the night!"