From Grandma’s Album… Jump Rope Rhyme – A favorite from childhood

Children skipping in the Grand Place, Bruges, Belgium, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire, edited by JA Hammerton and published by the Educational Book Company (London, 1922). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Jump Rope Rhyme
House for Sale
Apply within
A lady got arrested
For drinking gin;
If she promises
To drink no more,
Here’s the key,
To ________’s door. – Anonymous
Note – replace the blank with anyone’s name and then that person is the next to “step in“.
Page added and published 8/24/18 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 8/24/18
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