School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Buaile Mhaodhóg, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0890, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)210called the Farmer. The girls in the ring shout out "The farmer wants a wife", and the "farmer" pulls in someone, and she is the "wife". The girls shout again "The wife wants a child", The "wife" pulls in someone for the "child". The girls in the ring shout "The child wants a nurse," and the "child" pulls in some girl for the "nurse".
Then the girls shout again "The nurse wants a dog". The "nurse" pulls in someone for the "dog". The girls shout again "The dog wants a bone" etc and that is the end of the game.This is the way we play Little - dog - at - home.
We get into a ring, and one girl goes around the ring while the others are shouting "I have a little dog at home, and its name is Buff, it will neither bite you, nor you, nor you, but it will take a big bite out of you". Then the "bitten" girl runs after the other girl until she has caught her, & so on.Brigid Lacey,
Monamolin, Gorey,
Co Wexford.
- Collector
- Brigid Lacey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muine Moling, Co. Loch Garman
