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1. Children's Games (continued)

   

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   and this was called "scent". This gave the followers a chance of knowing where to go. It is a very interesting game, specially when the scent couldn't be found for a long time. This was another game that we had, thry and say the following without making any mistakes, and say it quickly
   Twelve blue pigeons, picking pepper off twelve new blue plitter platter plates.
   Eleven grey geese in the green fields grazing, green was the grass that the grey geese were grazing.
   Ten ould ministers in their pulpits "praching"
   MIne ould women and their pipes a blazing.
   Eight ould crows in the crooked crab-tree the trees were crooked

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script