Volume: CBÉ 0106
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
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- (continued from previous page)cord would be tied from one of the rafters to the centre of the cross. There was four points on the cross, and on one of them would be an apple, on another a candle, on another, a bar of soap and on the last a three-penny bit. The cross would then be put in motion and the game was to try and catch the apple or the three-penny bit in your mouth. Very often it is the bar of soap or the candle you would catch and then the fun would commence. Whoever would catch the apple or the threepenny bit could keep them.
Another game was peeling apples or turnips. This was a game the girls used to play. They would have to peel the apple or the turnip without breaking the skin, and(continues on next page)