School: Urbal (roll number 13874)
- Location:
- Urbal, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gerald Kelliher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 498
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- (continued from previous page)succeeded in guessing the right number, the dallóg was put on some other fellow's eyes.Pipity, popity, play me a pin.
Two used play this game. One boy would have both his fists clenched and he'd have a pin in one fist. The other boy would not know in which fist he had the pin concealed. However, He'd beign the rhyme saying:"Pipity, popity plays me a pin
This is the house that Jack lived in
Open the door and let me in"(A word, from the ryhme, named on each fist, alternatively)Perhaps the pin would not be in the fist on which the word "in" fell. The other boy would hide the pin again and repeat the rhyme. The game was continued in that manner.
- Collector
- Gearóid Ó Céileachair
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Francis Earley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Eden, Co. Leitrim
