Volume: CBÉ 0190

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 070

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 070

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  1. This was a game that young children used to play. They would all catch hands, and go around in a circle saying the following
    "Around the green gravel the grass grows green, many a fair lady was fit to be seen washed in milk and dried in silk and the last man down"
    When they would be finished saying this they would all fall down on the floor, to see which of them would be down first."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    19 April 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant
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    There is another game used to be played.

    There is another game used to be played. A boy would be put standing about a yard out from a wall and a bit of a stick would be put on the ground at the butt of the wall and he would have to bend
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.