Playing knick-knack
Niagra Falls, Ontario - Friday, Septmber 13, 2002 - by: Joe Hueglin
	Two lines are constant in a children's campfire song, one ends in "give a dog a bone"
	the other is "This old man goes rolling home."
	Paul Martin began playing out the song on 9/11/02 by giving an accounting of monies
	raised to have him go "rolling home" to the Prime Ministership of Canada. By declaring
	$110,856.00 he but "give a dog a bone". The meaty part is yet to come.
	The words "knick" and "knack" are constants in the song. The amount disclosed is
	but a "knick" on the surface of the money at his disposal. Yet to be determined is
	whether "Knack", a "clever, expedient way of doing something" (1) is applicable.
	There are, after all, ten verses to the song and only the first has been sung.
	Joe Hueglin
References:
1.	DEFINITION http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entries/58/k0085800.html
	THIS OLD MAN This old man, he plays one, He plays knick-knack on my thumb. With a knick-knack, paddy-wack, give a dog a bone. This old man goes rolling home. Two-on my shoe. [Tap shoe.] Three-on my knee. [Tap on knee.] Four-on the floor. [Touch the floor.] Five-on my hive. [Move hands as if brushing bees away from ears.] Six-on my sticks. [Tap knuckles of other hand.] Seven-up to Devon. [Shake fist.] Eight-on my pate. [Tap top of head.] Nine-on my spine. [Touch backbone.] Ten-now and then. [Raise hands shoulder high, open and close fists in rhythm.]
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