The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passesfrom one schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference (1) ______ 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 (2) ______ has grown up，and has children of their own，or even grandchildren. The (3) ______ period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground lore, (4) ______ therefore，a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour it is (5) ______ learnt; and，in the general，it passes between children of the same age, (6) ______ 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 even just (7) ______ for fifty，it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over; very (8) ______ possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three hundred young hearers and tellers，and the wonder is that it remains live after so much (9) ______ handling; to let alone that it bears resemblance to the original wording. (10) ______