School: Kilbeggan (B.)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Mac Siúrtáin
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- (continued from previous page)leader will tell them they are "hot" and if far away from it, she will tell them they are "cold". This continues until the article is found, then the finder has the chance of hiding it the next time, and so on.There are also games to be played, by everyone catching hands, and walking around in a ring, saying as we go, various rhymes such as : -Wallflowers, wallflowers, growing up so high,
we're all pretty children who do not like to die,
Especially (here the name of one of the crowd,
is mentioned) Oh! fie for shame, oh! fie for shame.
And turn your back against the game.
At these words the girl whose name has been mentioned,
turns her back to the others, and so the game continues until everybody's back is turned.Another rhyme is : -
Ring, a ring, a Rosie.
Buideal lan de Posie.
Ida, Ida, sios linn go leir.
At those last words, everyone sits down, and when up again continues the rhyme.
- Collector
- Teresa Dullaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
