School: Carlanstown (roll number 884)
- Location:
- Carlanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gérbheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0708, Page 068
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- Any number of girls that wish can play this game. The girls catch each others hands and go around marching in a ring say the following words"Forty jugs of rice-o.
My dincey, dancey officer.
Where are you going to?
Up to Wicklow.
What for?
To look for a husband
Marry one of us.
Yous are all too black and ugly
Ah! look at the beauty.
Ah! look at the beauty."Then the one in the middle goes around with her eyes shut and says"You are black
You are ugly"Then she chooses someone for a husband and brings her into the middle. The pair say:-"Open the gates and let us through"Children: "Not till you show your black and blue.H. W. Theres my black and theres my blue(continues on next page)
