School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)
- Location:
- Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Scannláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 437
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The game of button is a very interesting game. All the players sit around the fire and join their hands by placing the palms together, with the thumbs standing up. Then one player with a button between his palms, goes around on the others holding this palms over their hands and drops the button into the hand of some player unknown to the others. Then he asks some player, to tell who has the button and if he does not guess correctly, he has the penalty, which is settled upon before the game is begun. The penalty often laid down is to sing a song, tell a story(continues on next page)
