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1. Around the Green Gravel

   

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   This was a game that young children used to play. They would all catch hands, and go around in a circle saying the following
   "Around the green gravel the grass grows green, many a fair lady was fit to be seen washed in milk and dried in silk and the last man down"
   When they would be finished saying this they would all fall down on the floor, to see which of them would be down first."

   

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   “There is another game used to be played.”

   

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   There is another game used to be played. A boy would be put standing about a yard out from a wall and a bit of a stick would be put on the ground at the butt of the wall and he would have to bend

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   Date

   19 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Dómhnall de Buitléir