No. 72 Rhymes for a Race
Up the street, down the street,
Here’s the way we go.
Forty horses standing in a row;
[Dolly] on the white one,
[Harry] on the black one,
Riding to Harrisburg five miles away.
Philadelphia.
We suppose the above formula to be a rhyme for starting in a race. The common schoolboy verse—
One to make ready,
Two to prepare,
Three to go slambang,
Right—down—there,
appears to be a parody of the older English rhyme,
One to make ready,
And two to prepare,
Good luck to the rider,
And away goes the mare.