Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn
An exercise during which the fingers of the child are enumerated.
“Thumbikin, Thumbikin, broke the barn,
Pinnikin, Pinnikin, stole the corn.
Long back'd Gray
Carried it away.
Old Mid-man sat and saw,
But Peesy-weesy paid for a'.”
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