This rhyme is interesting for its similarity to Inka Binka Bottle of Inka.
Ink, Pink, Pen and Ink
Counting-out Rhyme
Ink, pink, pen and ink,
I command you for to wink,
Rottom bottom dish clout,
O. U. T. spells out,
So out goes she.
Notes
*A dish clout is a dish cloth.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme is from Derbyshire and was "Copied down from word of mouth, by Robert Charles Hope." It can be found in "The Folklore Journal" (1883) by Folklore Society (Great Britain).
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