54 CHILDREN’S RHYMES. 
The last touched stands aside until only one remains, who is 
obliged to bend with his head against the gable, blindfolded. The 
first boy puts his hand on the back of the one blindfolded. The 
rhymster puts his hand uppermost and asks ** where will this poor 
fellow go?” So the blindfolded boy sends half a dozen or more 
to different places all within easy distance. Then he and the 
rhymster clap hands, and the fun is to see all the boys running 
back to the gable. The one who comes in last has to submit to 
be blindfolded in turn. 
Another rhyme runs thus. ‘The girl or boy points to one and 
Says :— 
Hey Willy Wyn, and ho Willy Wynn, 
This night I must go home ; 
Better alight and stop a night, 
And [Pll choose you some pretty one. 
He replies—Who will that be 
Tf I abide with thee? 
She answers—The fairest and the rarest 
In a the country side. 
‘The fun consists in suggesting some one likely to be obnoxious to 
the aforesaid Willy Wynn. 
This rhyme was dinned into the ears of poor girls who were 
too proud :— 
Lady, lady, landless, 
Footless and handless. 
Those who were proud and greedy got a wigging from the 
ao © te) oo oO 
following rhyme :— 
Prood skyte of Aberdeen, 
Sell’t its mither for a preen, 
Sell’t its father for a plack. 
Whatna proud skyte’s that ? 
The following is an invocation to rain and sleet :— 
Rain, rain, rattlestanes, 
Don’t rain on me ; 
Rain on Johnny Groat’s house, 
Far ayont the sea. 
Another one comes nearer midsummer :— 
Sunny shower, sunny shower, 
You'll no last half-an-hour. 
