School: Bailieboro (Model)

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   And when your'e only half-ways up
   Your'e neither up nor down.
   Postman's Knock.

   A boy or a girl goes outside and one person gives a number to each person and the person outside calls one number and that person goes outside and kisses the other person.
   Bingo

   The players from a ring, and a person stands in the centre of the ring, and picks out another person and repeats a rhyme.
   "There was a dog sat on the wall
   And Bingo was his name O
   BINGO, BINGO, BINGO,
   And Bingo was his name O.
   Old Granny Gray

   To play this game somebody is made, Old Granny Gray, the rest come to her shouting, "Old Granny Gray, will you let us out to play, we won't go near the waters to chase the ducks away," and she says they may. Then they go out and chase the ducks away, and she runs out and catches them all and beats them, and whoever she catches last is "Old Granny Gray".

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Miss E. Mc Cartney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bailieborough, Co. Cavan