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School: Mercy Convent, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)

Location:
Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Sr. M. Clement
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0752, Page 162

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    "Donkey."
    Six people sit at the table to play. One person deals the cards. He gives them six cards each, and seven to himself. Then he passes around one card. The person that has his cards matched first throws down his cards and the last to throw down his cards is counted "d". They continue doing this until one person is "donkey".
    "Tommy tickle me."
    All the cards are given out and one person says,
    "There's an ace as you may see,
    There's another as good as he,
    There's the best one of the three;
    And there's Tommy tickle me."
    They keep saying this till all the cards are done and the person that has the last card, the rest
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toome, Co. Longford