Stick your thumb through a knothole and say:—
Old Gran’f’ther Graybeard, without tooths or tongue,
If you’ll give me a little finger I’ll give you a thumb.
Thumb’ll go away and little finger’ll come.

Stick your thumb through a knothole and say:—
Old Gran’f’ther Graybeard, without tooths or tongue,
If you’ll give me a little finger I’ll give you a thumb.
Thumb’ll go away and little finger’ll come.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 87.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.