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   leg of the player, he is out, or if one of the other team catches the ball before it touches the ground after a hit the whole batting side is out.
   In the long winter nights when all the children are sitting around the fire the game they play is this: One of the company gets a road and says an animal with a horn or an animal without a horn. If he says, an animal with a horn everyone holds up a finger and if anyone makes a mistake he gets a blow.
   Sometimes one gets a rod and everyone puts out his foot and then he says the following words "Erl-werl amber lock, five miles ten o' clock. She got, she sung, she daily spun. The little white dog the mountain cut and for that same reason pull in your foot." Whoever "foot" falls on gets a blow and pulls in his foot. Whoever has his foot out last wins.
   Bridie Sweeney, Fohenagh.

   2. A rhyme for games of "tig" etc. the following rhyme is said
   "Little Minnie put a penny in her inside out"
   Whoever "out" falls on is the one who leaves the line
   John Sweeney

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridie Sweeney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Fohanagh, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Jimmy Miskill

   Collector

   John Sweeney

   Gender

   Male

   Collector

   Seán Kenny

   Collector

   Stephen Cahill