School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)home." IT is usually played in a lane. All the players stand in a line. Two of them are picked to represent the wolves and one is picked as the owner of the sheep. The wolves lie down one on each side of the lane. Then the owner of the sheep says "sheep- sheep come home". The sheep will say "Im afraid". The owner will say; "what of." The sheep will say; "The wolf." The owner will say; "The wholf is gone to devilshire and wont be back till next year, sheep- sheep come home." Then all the sheep run and the two [?] wolves try to catch them. When the wolves catch all the sheep there is a tug o' war between them. [?] wolf takes all the sheep he has captured to pull behind him. When one side wins the pull the game begins again.
This is how I play "Follow the leader" The biggest player stands in front and all the others line up behind her. Wherever the first player goes the others folllow. Any player that does not do the same as the leader is put out of the game. The game keeps going on till there is only one player following the leader. Then that player is the new leader. The leader turns and twists, runs round in circles and does everything he can to make those following(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Coleman
- Gender
- Female
