School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)
- Location:
- Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Scannláin
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- (continued from previous page)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. - My Lady's Toilet
This game is played in the same was as the soldiers each adding to the rhyme.
My lady is going to the ball
What will you give her?
What colour dress?
What trimming
What ornaments
What powder.