"Small children's fortune-telling rhyme used when counting cherry stones, waistcoat buttons, daisy petals, or seeds of the Timothy grass." -from the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
The rhyme and the occasions for a child's use of the rhyme sweetens my thoughts today. I found this as an epigram to the book, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carré.
Add him as a friend >
