School: Ballinea (roll number 10426)
- Location:
- Béal an Átha, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mrs Farrell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)Sally in the sea" all the children except one form a ring. This one goes into the middle shuts her eyes and tries to catch one of the children in the ring who keep moving round her in a circle singing
"Sally in the water
Sally in the sea
Sally caught a blackbird
But cannot catch me"
If she catches one of those in the ring the one caught moves into the middle and the child in the middle joins into the ring and moves around singing with the others.
The child in the middle tries to catch somebody else and the child caught moves into the middle and so on.
