School: Trentagh (roll number 16331)
- Location:
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: M. Nic Pheadair
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- (continued from previous page)comes to look for us. Whenever she is coming she says:-
Here I come, ready or not,
And if you'r spied it is not my fault.Whoever she gets last is to close her eyes and we do the same again.(2) Another of the games that we play is "Soldiers' tig". The way we play this game is:- we all get into a long line, and we say a rhyme to find out who is to be the tigger. Some person stays out of the line to says the rhyme. The rhyme we says is:-
"As I went up a Chinese lane,
I met a Chinese woman,
And she said:-
Isa, visa, ving, vong, ving vong, ving vong.
Isa, visa, ving vong, va, vi, vo.The person who "vo" falls on is out of the line. We say this again and again until one person is left in the line, and whatever person is left is the tigger. The tigger then runs after us and tries to catch us. Whatever place she touches us on, we have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Harley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Na Tréantacha, Co. Dhún na nGall
