School: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Cill Urnaí, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 318
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- All the children stand around in a ring and one child sits in the centre. The children in the ring walk around with their hands joined saying three times "Frog in the middle jump up, jump up". At the third call the girl in the centre of the ring jumps up with her eyes closed. She runs to catch someone. She must guess who she has caught. If she guesses correctly her captive is the frog the next time.
- Collector
- Peggy Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Urnaí, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- To play this game we pick out two persons, one for the mother and one for Jenny Jo.
All the other girls catch tails and around they come to ask how is Jenny Jo.
The mother says "She is washing clothes and you can't see her now". Jenny Jo washes the clothes.(continues on next page)
