School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 108
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- (continued from previous page)left hand. Then they march up along the yard or field in which they are playing, saying as they are marching.
Judy and Jack,
Dressed in black,
Silver buttons all down their back
Heighho, tippety toe,
Turn the ship,
And away we go.
When they are saying "Turn the ship and away we go," they turn around very quickly and come back again the same way saying the rhyme.
- Among the games we play are "Rabbits" and "Twenty.
Rabbits is played in the following manner:
Before the game is started, a "den" or "burrow" is made at each end of the playground. A "den" is made by going to a wall and marking, with a stick or with the heel of the boot, a rough semi-circle in the ground having the wall as the diameter of the semi-circle.
Then all the boys are put standing(continues on next page) - Collector
- Denis Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cappanrush, Co. Laois
