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Rhyme from Japan and Rhyme from India
Isaac Taylor Headland mentioned the following two as "Mother Goose" rhymes in his preface to 
The Chinese Boy and Girl, published c1900.
Mother Goose Rhyme from Japan
Children Quarreling
This is a fingerplay, performed with the hands "steepled" as in the familiar "Here's the church, Here's the steeple." The fingers represent the children and the thumbs represent the parents.

A bamboo road
     With a floor-mat siding,
Children are quarreling,
     And parents chiding.
 

Mother Goose Rhyme from India
Heh, My Baby

Heh, my baby! Ho, my baby!
     See the wild, ripe plum,
And if you'd like to eat a few,
     I'll buy my baby some.
 
 
 

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