ID: 686
Date: 1890s - 1930s
Title: Cups and saucers
Gender: Female 
Classification: Skipping 
Rhyme: 

Cups and saucers, 
Plates and dishes,
Here comes Johnny
With the cast-iron britches.
How many stitches in his britches?
1,2,3..

(Masterton, 1930s)

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Cups and saucer, plates and dishes,
There goes Sally in calico britches.

(Taranaki, 1890s (Sutton-Smith, 1959:65))

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Keywords: archaic language 
Location: Masterton 
Group size: 4 
Incidence: 2