School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)
- Location:
- An Dubhais, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)woman had, to the crooked man, that owned the crooked horse that ate the crooked grass that grew crooked under the crooked crab tree.
- This is a kind of musical game.
The head man gathers his players no fixed numbers - and assigns to each of them and to himself a certain musical instrument.
He himself selects a fiddle and gets a big stick to represent the bow.
Of the other players one is supposed to have a melodeon, another a flute, another a mouth organ, another a harp, another a tin whistle and so on.
Each player must remember what instrument he is supposed to have and also he must carefully watch the leader. The leader begins by playing his own instrument, the fiddle, while each player plays his own- melodeon, whistle &c and(continues on next page)
