School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 160
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- We get a ball and one goes on in front and throws it across her shoulder and she has to know who has it and if she knows she has to get it again and if anyone catches it she can throw it.
- One stands in the middle and one each side and they run round and if the cat catches the rat the rat becomes the cat and so on like until you get tired.
- All the children kneel in a ring and one goes round them and says. "
I wrote a letter to my mother,
And on the way I lost it,
Someone came and picket it up,
And put it in your pocket.
It wasn't you nor you, then she stops at someone and says "It was you", and she has to run(continues on next page)
