Volume: CBÉ 0106

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1. Children's Games

   

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   Children's games
   When I was going to school we used generally play "tig". It would be given out on a number of boys on girls as follows.
   Hainie Mainie fig-idie fig
   Dil doll dom in in aw nig
   Block itie block stony rock
   Hum bum thrush
   O-U-T spells out and out you must go. That person would then be "on it" and would have to "tig" another chap and then he would be on it.
   Another game was "hunt the fox" two or three of the best runners in the school would be got and they would be let off for about ten minutes, and then a crowd would go in pursuit. The boys they would be following would throw pieces of white paper on the ground,

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script