School: Kildangan (C.) (roll number 2292)
- Location:
- Kildangan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 162
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and say the following rhyme:-
"Wallflowers, wallflowers, growing up so high
All those young ladies are very sure to die except-
For she can hop and she can shop
and she can turn her back to the candlesticks
We play "willie willie wagtail" in this way. The players stand in a row and then one girl turns her back to the others and say "willie willie wagtail one two three". She then turns around and if she catches any of the players out of their places it she puts them back to their places again.
"Colours" are played in this manner. The players stand in a row and one girl tells each player a different colour. Then one girl is chosen as the "devil" and another as the "angel". The angel comes first and knocks at the door back of the girl who gave out the colours and she says "Who came here" and the angel answers "The girl with the golden hair"
The the other girl says "What do you want"? and he angel says "colours" naming some colour she wants. The girl who has that colour goes away.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kildangan, Co. Kildare
