School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 092
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- The games that we play are
Skipping,
Follow,
The Bridges
Eleven men out to work sir.
Lazy Mary w'ont get up,
Open wide the garden gate,
Skipping is played with a rope. Two are swinging and one or more jumping through the swing.
Follow is played with one or more following a whole crowd and trying to catch them.
The Bridges is played with two with their hands in the form of a Bridge and the rest going under in a line.
The two holding hands will say :
All the Bridges all built up :
Get the key and lock her up : etc.
"Eleven men out to work, sir" is played by one ore more guessing something that the rest will be doing like churning or polishing or scrubbing or things like that.
Lazy Mary is played by all forming a ring and Mary in the middle. All would say Lazy Mary w'ont get up etc. Then she gets up and with her eyes shut touches some one and she brings that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Rashford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybrennan, Co. Wexford
