School: Kilbeggan (Mercy Convent) (roll number 14491)
- Location:
- Cill Bheagáin, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Sr Philomena
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- For this game you must get a griosad (there used to be one in every house long ago for the dipping of the rush candles) and some lead. As the lead dissolves it assumes the most fantastic shapes. The person in charge of the griosad is generally of a fanciful turn of mind so he prophesies the darker or brightest future which is implicity believed by the confiding dupe of the griosad.
- A shy Cailín anxious to learn by secret means the name of her future husband takes a ball of yarn(continues on next page)