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School: Druim na hAdhairce (roll number 14379)

Location:
Drumnaheark East, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Mhic Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 41

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    Grandmother’s Needle.
    At least three children are needed to play this game. You can play this game anytime. The children sit in a row playing it. A girl is put in the centre of the children and she says a rhyme. This is the rhyme.
    “I lost my Grandmothers Needle, I found it again, I lost it again, I found it again, I lost it again, Not you, not you but you.” The person on whom “but you” falls will follow the person who put out the rhyme. The person followed runs in and out among the children. The tigger must go in and out in the same places. If she does not she is called a goose. The child who is caught goes in
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Cunnaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Mountcharles, Co. Donegal