Two rhymes share this entry: the mishap of two kittens and their mother tumbling off a collapsing bridge, and the well-known counting rhyme One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. The counting rhyme is the real workhorse here, a handy way to march through numbers to ten.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
The two gray kits,
And the gray kits' mother,
All went over
The bridge together.
The bridge broke down,
They all fell in;
"May the rats go with you,"
Says Tom Bolin.
ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE
One, two,
Buckle my shoe;
Three, four,
Knock at the door;
Five, six,
Pick up sticks;
Seven, eight,
Lay them straight;
Nine, ten,
A good, fat hen;
Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids a-waiting;
Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition