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School: Allenwood

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Allenwood, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 185

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    black-hen, blind man's buff. The way to play button is to get a button or anything small and go around from one person to another and say "Cúibín, Cúibín, hold this tight until I come back to-night." Then you ask some person "who has the button." If he guesses right he would go around with the button and if he guessed wrong he would be slapped.
    The crooked-crab tree is a long rhyme called a tongue twister whoever would go up the highest would win.
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