School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)

Location:
Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Máire Ní Scannláin
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    Two pullets and a black hen
    Three screeching wild geese
    Two plump partidges,
    Four hare headlesses
    Two swift deer.
    The rhyme is kept on and added to until nine is reached when it becomes rather long and difficult to remember as each does his or her best to make the rhyme as long as possible. If any player leaves out one word in repeating the piece or fails to make an addition to that already composed he or she has his or her face blackened.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.