School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 230
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- (continued from previous page)by the children. First of all a tub is half filled with water. Then someone throws a sixpence or a shilling into it and then the children try to take it up with their mouths. There is another game played by the children called Blind Mans Buff. A piece of cloth is tied around someone's eyes. The rest of the children come around him and if he succeeds in catching any of them, then that child must put the cloth around his eyes. The adults go about from house to house striking doors with turnips and heads of cabbage which(continues on next page)
