School: Moys (roll number 10837)
- Location:
- Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
- Teachers: P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
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- (continued from previous page)the board is numbered from one to a hundred there are ladders and snakes when a person gets to the bottom of a ladder he goes to the to and when you come to the snake you have to desend the hundred numbers is they game.
Donkey is played with cards and everyone gets the same number and the last to get them matched is donkey.
Hop-scotch is played by drawing a square and making it into six parts then you get a flat stone and throw it into the first square and hop on your one leg and hit the stone on to the second square and if it lights on the line you are out.
Colours are played in the summer time when the sun is shining. A row of girls sit along the bank and two go out in it, one angel and a devil then another girl gives the one on the bank different colours and which of the angel or the devil guesses the most colours of the ones on the bank wins the game.
