School: Cill Moibhí (B)
- Location:
- Kilmovee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Labhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 301
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- Two captains are first elected and they agree what fruit each will have. One says sweets perhaps and the other biscuits. They join hands and raises them over the boys they march their turns and they recite.
Tim, Ala, Luke, John.
Let them all pass by.
But the very last one.
The last one stands and they ask him which of sweets or biscuits would he prefer. He choose one and then stands behind the captain who selected what he said. The game continues like that until every boy is questioned. The two captains join hands. The players catch their captains by the waist. The second player catches the first and so on. A tug of war begins , and when one side pulls the other ten yards from the standing place they have won. Another games begins and continues same(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anthony Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Skeheen, Co. Mayo
