The Poetry Corner

Nursery Rhyme. CCCXXXV. Games.

By Unknown

[In the following childish amusement, one extends his arm, and the other in illustration of the narrative, strikes him gently with the side of his hand at the shoulder and wrist; and then at the word "middle," with considerable force, on the flexor muscles at the elbow-joint.] My father was a Frenchman, He bought for me a fiddle, He cut me here, he cut me here, He cut me right in the middle.