We have a lot of crows/ corvids around about here. As I was looking out my window this morning, looking at the early signs of Spring, I saw two crows on a branch together and two fly past. That started me to remembering the old counting rhyme.
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While researching today's proverb, I came across this verse and was enchanted by it.

Chaidh “theab” le creig 's theab nach deachaidh
's bhàthadh “shaoil leam” ged nach do shaoil cuid e
ach nam biodh “b' fhearr leam” beò cha bhiodh ceann air colainn“Almost” fell over a rock but it almost didn't ( Read more... )

(Kentucky version - the one I learnt as a child)
( Lulu had a steamboat )

( Great green globs of )

Old Mother Goose, when she wanted to wander
Would fly through the air on a very find gander.

SuperD when she wanted to fly
Would ride a dragon up to the sky.


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Eena, deena, dina, duss,
Katla, weena, wina, wuss,
Spit, spot, must be done,
Twiddlum, twaddlum, twenty-one,
O U T spells out!


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Hickety pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Sometimes nine, sometimes ten.
Hickety pickety, my black hen.

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My mother used to say this one to me.

There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,
She was very VERY good.
And when she was bad, she was horrid.