Scoil: Ardnagrath (uimhir rolla 5963)

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1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “Games are not played at wakes in this district now, though very old people remember the time when they used to be...”

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   "Rates in the market" is played like this:-

   There cannot be more than thirteen playing the game. One person gives out the questions and calls the names. The others sit round in a circle. The person in charge of the games gives a name to each one like this:-

   1st person is called "one penny".
   2nd person is called "two pence"
   3rd person is called "three pence"
   So on, up to one Shilling, but not higher than that. The person in charge of the game calls out any number from "one penny" to "one shilling". The person called answers "Sir" or "Miss" as the case may be, thus.
   The caller says "three pence"
   The person called "three pence" says "Sir"
   The caller then says "How are rates in the market"
   That person answers "four pence (or any other number he likes to say)
   The caller calls out "four pence"
   "Four pence" answers "Sir"
   The caller says "How are rates in the market"
   Answer "Nine pence or any thing else between one penny and one Shilling. The caller then calls "Nine pence".

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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