School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The person who is last caught has to lie.
My mother told me the following game. There is supposed to be an old woman and her children playing and the children say "Granmother grey can we go out to play we wont go neat the ponds or hunt the ducks away?"
Granmother "No."
Children then repeat the words and the granmother says "yes".
Then the children go out into the fields and hunt the ducks away. They then go into a garden and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Lahert
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Denis Lahert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
