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1. The Games I Play

   

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   The games I play are Tig, Rabbits, Hide and go seek, Blindman's Buff, Football, and Hiding the thimble. I amuse myself round the fire on a winter night by playing Peppity-poppity, play me a pin, lift the latch and draw the string, for this is the very wee house Jack straw lives in. The way it is played is some one gets a piece of a stick and puts it into one of his hands. Then he closes both his hands and says over the rhymes. If the guesser guesses the correct hand in which it is in then he or she gets the stick and does the same things with it.
   There is one other game we play at the fire in the winter nights.
   Two only can play the game. One of them makes a crow's nest with his fingers and says over this rhyme. "The crow is away to Malin Hd, to pick a Malin stone. Is it coming, is it coming." Then when the other person puts in his finger to rob the nest the nest closes and he gets a dab with the other person's nail. Many people can play in the game called Rabbits.
   There are usually 3 den's, two persons go out to be the catchers and the others are

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Lyle

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moville, Co. Donegal