School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)grazing; three plump partridges; two ducks and a fat hen. Here are six yellow hammers in an oven baking, five piggy wiggies in a rye-field rooting, four grey geese in a green field grazing, three plump partridges, two ducks and a fat hen.
Here are seven parsons in their pulpits preaching, six yellow hammers in an oven baking, five piggy wiggies in a rye-field grazing, three plump partridges, two ducks and a fat hen.
A group sits round the fire, a small object say a button, penny or box is handed from each person while saying above rhyme, starting with 'Here is a fat hen'. When it becomes difficult to remember the lines of the rhyme towards the end, the person who makes a mistake gets a slap, or gives a forfeit, and retires from the game and so on.
44. As round as a apple, as deep as a pail
It never cries out till its caught be the tail.
Freagra. A Bell.
45. As I looked out through my window I saw the dead carrying the live.
Fr. A Boat.
