Mary at the Cottage Door
Counting-out Rhyme
1, 2, 3, 4,
Mary at the cottage door
Eating cherries off a plate,
5, 6, 7, 8.
Notes
Here's another version of this rhyme from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith:
One, two, three, four,
Mary at the cottage door;
Five, six, seven, eight,
Eating cherries off a plate;
O-U-T spells out!
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