Unnatural Magic

by C.M. Waggoner

Red sugar white sugar, buy a pat of butter, run to the dairy man and make the man an offer. Red cherries white cherries pick a peck for cheaper, you can catch a pretty bird but you can never keep her. Cold stove hot stove, try and spare your skin, find a troll to marry you and never work again! —Leiscourt Children’s Skipping Song, Trad.