School: Ballycorus (roll number 8294)
- Location:
- Ballycorus, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: E. Nic Shionóid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0798, Page 288
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Gather a crowd of children together. Put them in a straight line. Get two big children and the two catch hands, and holds them up. The line goes in under neath the two childrens arms and when they are going in the two children say. "Here comes the robbers passings through, passing through, passing through. Here comes the robbers passing through my fair lady." The line replies. "What did the robbers do to you, do to you, do to you. "What did the robbers do to you my fair lady." The children replies. "Stole my watch and stole my chain, stole my chain, stole my chain(continues on next page)
