School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)

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1. The Games We Play (continued)

   

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   Chickma Chickma Clock.
   I sold my butter milk every drop.
   If I had more I'd sell it in score,
   Chickma Chickma Clock.

   One child is selected as the old man in the chair smoking a pipe. The other children form a kind of a line by catching on to the tail of the coat of the boy in front of him. The leader of this line is supposed to protect all the chickens behind him. They march around him in a circle singing a Chickma Chickma Clock, at the end of each verse the leader would ask what time is it? The old man would pretend to be asleep, at the march round and the song and the question "what time is it", would be repeated until the last chicken would try to snap the pipe from his mouth, then the old man would spring up and ask

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán O Concubhair

   Gender

   Male