School: Newtown, Kilcock (roll number 1298)

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1. Games I Play (continued)

   

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   and they all go off and hide. Tig is played by one having the tig and he follows someone else and he tips them and then he has the tig.
   For Ghost in the garden you have to have a girl to be the Ghost and another girl is supposed to be the mother and she has to send some of her children to the shop that the ghost is in for something and the ghost runs after them, then she comes back to her mother and says, "Im afraid of the ghosts" and then the mother sends another girl and she comes back and says the same thing, she keeps sending them in their turns and when they have all gone she goes herself for it and brings them with her, when she goes to the ghost he asks her for a knife and a bit of sand She sends one of the girls for it and when she comes back with it the mother asks the ghost what he wants with it and he says "to cut your throat" and then he follows them with the knife and the mother tries to save them.

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí sóisialta (~7)
         1. siamsaíocht agus caitheamh aimsire (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anne Malone

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An Ghráinseach, Co. Chill Dara