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1. Hunt the Fox (continued)

   

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   Then of course they would all get three or four slaps each for being late, and would be kept in school for an hour after the class was over to do the lesson they had missed.
   But that wouldn't stop them, the next day the same game would be played again. This was a great game in this part of the county up to about ten years ago, but now it is very seldom that a game of "Hunt the fox" is run. This game was played in this county almost one hundred years ago, and was always played by the school boys, but now it is dying out.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   19 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Dómhnall de Buitléir