School: Balrath (1) (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Pharthaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 228
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- (continued from previous page)"Shut your clob and say no more"
"Fuss-sss-ssss-s"
The boy who stands in the middle would get a stroke with each word
The way they would play the "Cobbler and the Tinker" they would sit in a ring and a man takes another on his knee and he puts his hands on his eyes, he would look at you with the corner of his eye and say:
"You sing Cobb"
"You sing le"
"You sing Tin"
And you take care of the Cobbler and the Tinker and anyone that did not know the word he gave would get the slaps.
The way they play "The cow woth the crumbled horns" is they sit down(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Clavan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carlanstown, Co. Westmeath
