School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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- When I was young I made a "Didgy Dodgy". I went out in the field and I gathered cowslips. I broke the stems off the cowslips. Then I tied a piece of thread around the blossoms of the cowslips in the shape of a ball. In some places they are called "Didgy Dodgys" and more places "Toss Balls".
The way I played with the "Didgy Dodgy" was I threw it up in the air and when throwing it up in the air I said these words.
"Toss Ball, Toss Ball please tell me. How many years have I to go to school.
Each time I threw it up that represented one year.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Séamas Mac Giolla Bríghde
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clopook, Co. Laois