School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 109
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- The children all sit round in a circle - their feet stretched out on the floor. One child gets a stick and tips each foot while saying the rhyme and the foot that is tipped while he says the last word has to be pulled in.
The last foot left wins.
Wonery dory, dickery dairy,
Hillbow hollowbo crack a bow Leary,
Whisper Dandy merchin time,
Humbling bumbling 29.
Pull in that dirty black foot.
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“Another rhyme to which the same game is played is...”
Another rhyme to which the same game is played is
[?]arl wherl limber lock,
Five miles 10 o'clock.
I sat I sung I early sprung.
Phillis a dear come to the pier
To rise the wood and kill a fat deer.
Beetle bo barley sheaf
A little white dog and his mountie cut,
For that same reason pull in that foot. - Informant
- Thos. Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tullaghan, Co. Roscommon
