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1. A Game We Play - The Crooked Crab-Tree

   

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   On a long winter's night, the children play many games by the fire-side. They often play a game, which is called, the Crooked crab-tree. One of them sits in a corner, and makes himself a master. He holds a stick in his hand.
   He asks the first one, "what's this? He answers, "the Crooked crab-tree." He asks the next one, and he says, "the crooked grass the grew crooked under the Crooked crab-tree. He asks each one in turn, until it comes to the last one. When it comes to him, he had a long rhyme to say. If anyone answers wrong, he will get a blow of a stick.
   The rhyme is.

   The crooked cock, that wakened the crooked priest, that married the crooked boy, to the crooked girl, that milked the crooked cow, that ate the crooked grass that grew crooked, under the Crooked crab-tree.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Laurence Connor

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corboggy, Co. Meath