School: Newtownmanor (roll number 4905)
- Location:
- Newtownmanor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Mac Néill (Nelson)
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- There are many games which I play at school and also at home. I play high-windows, hide and seek, skipping, see-saw, draughts, "dallog" dickity-dock, ludo, snakes and laders and making daisy-chains. I play High Windows thus - A crowd of girls counts "one, two, three until she reaches twelve and the person who was Twelve will be the catcher. All the players put up their hands then and make them like windows and the catcher will follow the other girl in and out under the other girl's hands until she catches her. This is the way that I play "Hide and seek". A crowd of girls gather together and one of the crowd counts to twelve. The girl who was Twelve first hides some-where while the remaining girls go away and hide. When they are hidden they should "Hid" to the girl who was catching and she comes and seeks for each of them on turn."See-saw is played by the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Clare I. Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
