School: Dunmore, Kilkenny (roll number 4331)
- Location:
- Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: M. Ó Leathlobhair
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- Games I Play
Autumn - Nut cracking, blackberry picking, gathering crabs for jelly
Winter- Skating, making snow-men.
Spring time - Top pegging, skipping.
Summer - Hide and seek, cat and dog, four corners, paper chasing, Jack stones, running -races, french -tig, chair-tig, forfeits, daisy chains
Halloween, Snap-apple, ducking in the tub of water for the apple or the money.
We also play rings, draughts, ludo. darts, dummy, table tennis, and hide the button.
My favourite game is hide and seek. This is how it is played, two girls stay in den and all the others go to different hiding places. When the girls who hide cuck the other two girls go to look for them the last caught is to be in den next.
We also play four corners, five play this game. One girl goes in each of four corners and one girl in the middle. Those who are in the corners(continues on next page)
