School: Lorg an Iarla (roll number 13590)
- Location:
- Lurganearly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Choilldubh
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- (continued from previous page)a girl. If the two burn together they will be married and if one shoots out they will separate.
- We go around and tell someone to be a "guesser" - someone to guess the names.
Then we all stand in a circle we go around and tell someone to guess the names. Then someone else would tell each one a name of a bird and when every one has got a name the namer tells the guesser to come. She would come then and the namer would say:-
"of all the birds in the air, all the fish in the sea, all the birds in the air, pick me out the lark or some particular bird".
If she guesses the name of the night bird she stays in the circle and if she does not she goes down.
Someone else then goes down to guess the names.
