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Thread #137420   Message #4123208
Posted By: rich-joy
16-Oct-21 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tell tale tit..
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tell tale tit..
In Perth, Western Australia (a most remote part of the far-flung Empire!), I recall in the 1950s it being :

"Tell-Tale Tit
Your tongue will split
& all the little dickie birds
will have a little bit"

As MGM Lion remarked above, this was not used as a skipping or ball bouncing rhyme, but reserved as a venomous public scolding of a "Dobber".
Until these Covid and Social Media riddled days, where the Community is actively encouraged "to dob" - or tell - on one another, being a Dobber was one of the worst crimes an Aussie (kid or adult) could commit!!!!

Cheers,
R-J