School: Castletown
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- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)of gate and both of them have some-thing nice. Then the rest form a line + pass out under the gate saying "Thread thread the needle and sew." The last man has to guess one thing and whoever he guesses she must go behind them, and so on till they are all finished. Then both sides pull against each other and whoever falls first then the other half of players win.
The way to play towball is, you have a ball. And the players at the bottom throw the ball to the ones in town and if they do not catch it the others are one. But if they do catch it they run down to the bottom and so on till the get the number required.
Two even numbers play flowers of May. One side will say "Who will you have for flowers of May, flowers of May on a cold and frosty morning". Then the other side will say "We'll have so + so for flowers of May, flowers of May on a cold and frosty morning." Then whoever they say, one of their side must pull her over to their side and if she is able to pull the other one over on to her side so you keep like that until they are all on one side.(continues on next page)