Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 066
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- Apples and oranges.
This is a girls game. A crowd of girls would be together and two of the biggest of them would face each other and catch hands. One of the girls would be an apple and the other the orange. Another girl would come along then in under the hands of the first two, and then they would ask her which would she prefer and apple or an orange. She would say an orange perhaps. Then the "orange" would tell her to go behind her back. Then another girl would come along and they would ask her which would she prefer. Perhaps she would say an apple Then the "apple" would tell her to go behind her back. This would go on until all the girls would be in their places.(continues on next page)
