Nursery Rhyme. CCCLI. Games.

        [Two children sit opposite to each other; the first turns her fingers one over the other, and says:]

    "May my geese fly over your barn?"

        [The other answers, Yes, if they'll do no harm. Upon which the first unpacks the fingers of her hand, and waving it over head, says:]

    "Fly over his barn and eat all his corn."

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