School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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- (continued from previous page)he calls out that person's name runs back to the den and shouts "One two three" and so on until all the players are spied. The first onw spied is the spy the next time.
In Tipping Tig one player is selected to have the tig. She must run after the others and when she tips one then that person has the tig.
In fox and turkey, the players stand in a line. The one at of the line is called the Mother turkey and the rest are the baby turkeys.Then a person is selected to act as a fox and she tries to catch the baby turkeys but the mother turkey must try to defend them.
Frog in the well is a very exciting game. About ten girls stand in a circle and one stays in the middle of the circle. This one is called the frog and she tries to get out of the ring under(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Janie Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bettyville, Co. Dublin
