School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)

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1. The Games I Play (continued)

   

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   and Salt, Hide the thimble, ring a ring a rosy, Queeny, Donkey, Fool in the middle, Cards, Skipping. Oats and Beans,
   Here is an account of some of them.
   Oats and Beans

   Let each child catch hands and make a ring, and one person stands in the middle. Then all the children run round and sing
   Oats and Beans and Barley grow,
   Do you or I or anyone know
   How oats and Beans and Barley grow.
   First the farmer sows his seed
   Then he stands and takes his ease.
   Stamps his feet and claps his hands
   And turns round to view the land.
   Waiting for a partner,
   Waiting for a partner.
   Then when they come to open the ring and take one in, the person in the middle takes anyone out of the ring

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   15

   Address

   Fallathurteen, Co. Sligo