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   loafs and tobacco. For money we used have little stones. We used also make cakes of clay but when we came back on the following day the sun used have them all dried up and cracked. When "playing school" we used have a big ring of stones and a name on each every stones. We used also have a big stick to beat them. When playing "house-keeping" we used have a little house made and we used invited all our friends to tea.
   When playing "Ghost in the garden" there has to be one child as the mother and another as the ghost. All the rest are the children and they have to do whatever the mother tells them. Then the mother tells them to go out in the garden for cabbage and they return without it saying that there is a ghost in the garden. She goes out with them and says to the ghost "What are you doing here"? The ghost answers filling sand. "What do you want of the sand"? To scour knives. "What do you want of the sand, knives"? To cut the knives heads of you and all your children. Then the ghost follows the mother and children and catches them to cut off their heads.
   I also play the game "Sea-saw." The game is played by putting a long rafter across a wall with a person sitting at each end of it. They weigh one another

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Reachtaire

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Stripe, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Pádhraic Ó Reachtaire

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   80