ring-round-the-rosy

Updated: May 9, 2025

"What's that?" asked Aunt Millie. "Have you given Circle O a new name?" "One of the Curlytops did," chuckled Uncle Frank. "They said my branding sign looked just like a ring-round-the-rosy, so I'm going to call the ranch that after this." "It's a nice name," said Aunt Millie.

Howard Roger Garis - Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch

We need to learn it anyhow, so why not make it our needed form of common speech?" I remember just how earnest old Joel became as he set forth his new idea of his. He jumped up and tore round the old sitting-room. He rubbed my ears again, rumpled Tom's hair, caught Catherine by both her hands and went ring-round-the-rosy with her, nearly knocking down the table, lamp and all!

C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens - A Busy Year at the Old Squire's