The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference 【B1】 ______ between school lore and nursery lorE.In nursery lore a verse, learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener 【B2】 ______ has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. 【B3】 ______ The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from 20 to 70 years. With the playground 【B4】 ______ lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour 【B5】 ______ it is learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children of the 【B6】 ______ same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or 【B7】 ______ even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three 【B8】 ______ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live 【B9】 ______ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the 【B10】 ______ original wording. 【B1】