School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)Then the ghost runs after the mother and children to catch them to cut their heads off.
- See-Saw
I get a big round stick or a strong high box. Then I get a flat strong board about six feet long.Then I sit up on one end of the board and another person about my own weight on the other end of the board which is placed across the stick.
The see-saw then goes up and down. While going up and down the following rhyme is repeated to keep time with the motion of the board.
"See-saw see-saw
Now we're off - to Dublin town
See-saw see-saw(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cáit Ní Bhraonáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fallaghmore, Co. Laois
