School: Baile an Ghaorthaidh, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballingeary East, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó hAodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0569, Page 061
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- (continued from previous page)Then she would ask her servant where they were, and what happened to them. The servant would make some excuse about the beggar man. The mother would ask the children was she telling the truth, and if they said she wasn’t she would beat her servant and send her looking for the children.5. DONKEY
All who are playing this game should stand in the form of a ring and one person should have a ball and throw it to the girl nearest her, and she should throw it to the nest and so on until someone would leave the ball fall. The girl who leaves the ball fall would be called “D” and if she left it fall again she would be called “O” and so on until donkey is spelled. Then all the others would run around her saying “Look and my donkey, look at my donkey.”
