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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

by James Orchard Halliwell

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Hitty-Titty

Hitty-titty in-doors,
  Hitty-titty out;
You touch Hitty-titty,
  And Hitty-titty will bite you.

These lines are said by children when one of them has hid herself. They then run away, and the one who is bitten (caught) becomes Hitty-titty, and hides in her turn. A variation of the above lines occurs in MS. Harl. 1962, as a riddle, the solution of which is a nettle.

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