Apples

Children in the North of England, when they eat apples, or similar fruit, delight in throwing away the pippin, exclaiming—

Pippin, pippin, fly away,
Get me one another day!

The Walnut-Tree

There is a common persuasion amongst country people that whipping a walnut-tree tends to increase the produce, and improve the flavour of the fruit. This belief is embodied in the following distich:

A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree,
The more you whip them the better they be.

And also in this quatrain:

Three things by beating better prove,
A nut, an ass, a woman;
The cudgel from their back remove,
And they’ll be good for no man.