counting-out

It also has counting-out songs and jump rope songs, which I love, like:

lots and lots of research materials asakiyume 2008

II (1912-19), 96 (in 4 lines), a counting-out rhyme from Edinburgh.

Carle Rade tae Aberdeen 1976

A counting-out rhyme is then used, one finger being touched for each accent.

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft

If the other boy should say "odd," and on count the objects prove to be even in number, he has lost, and the other boy has first choice; or if it is a counting-out game, the one who guesses right goes free and the last is "It."

Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort

The following counting-out rhyme is famous in literary annals as having been taught to Sir Walter Scott before his open fire by that dainty little maiden, Marjorie Fleming: --

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft

The Wabanaki Indians use an interesting method, combining counting-out and racing.

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft

German counting-out rhymes, and the ancient Germans used to rub honey in the mouth of the new-born child.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

When children indulge in counting-out games they are quite indifferent to the fact that since the infancy of history and in every land, civilized, barbarous and savage, other children have played the same game, in much the same way, and have used rhymes that are curiously alike.

Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort

The enormous range of variation in the wording of counting-out rhymes, game-songs, and play-verses, is evidence enough of the fertility of invention of child-poets and child-poetesses.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

There is a considerable number of counting-out rhymes to be heard, only one of which I am able to give entire.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner