School: Crieve (roll number 4369)
- Location:
- An Chraobh, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: E. Browne
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- The games I play in summer are "Down on the gree gravel". "Ring a Ring a Rosy" "I have a wee bird in my pocket" "I sent a letter to my Auntie". A ring is formed of children one child standing in the middle. The ring of children march around singing
"Down on the green gravel
Where the grass grows green
Many a lady was fit to be seen
Washed in milk and dressed in silk"
The first popped down gets into the middle and the person in the middle goes into the ring again.
"Ring a Ring a Rosy" is played like "Down on the green gravel" but no person stood in the middle.
The rhyme is "Ring a Ring a Rosy"
A pocket full of posies
We all pop down posy.
"I have a wee bird in my pocket" "i have a wee bird in my pocke" here is an other form of same
It peeps out and in
The one that I like best.
I hit him on the chin
No you, not you, not you, but you.
Here is another form of same
"I sent a letter to my Auntie
And on my way I lost it.
Some wee doggie picked it up(continues on next page)- Collector
- Isobell Farlow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire Oileara, Co. Mhuineacháin