School: Bilboa (C.) (roll number 15693)
- Location:
- Bilboa, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 086
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- We play different kinds of games. Some of them are:- Pickety; Skipping; Fair Rosa; Thady, Thady, shovel the corn; Dan, Dan, thread the needle; All as black as pokers; Hide the stone; French-tig; All around the mullbery; Chickame, chickame, chock; Colours; Grandmother Grey; Handkerchief; Follow; Four corners.
In summer we play "Handkerchief"; Thady, Thady, shovel the corn"; "Colours"; and "Willie wagtail".
In Autumn we play "Dan, Dan, thread the needle"; "Chickame, chickame, chock"; "Grandmother Gray"
In Winter we play "Follow"; "Blind man's buff"; Sliding on the ice; Making snowmen and snowballing.
In Spring we play "Picketey"; "Fair Rosa"; "All as black as pokers"; "French tig"; "All around the mullberry bush"; "Four Corners".
The way to play "Dan, Dan, thread the needle" is :- All the girls join up in a line and two girls go away and choose two colours. The girls in the line run around singing,"Dan, Dan, thread the needle,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lena Hammersley
- Gender
- Female
