School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
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- The games I play are hurley, bowling pitch and toss, tig, slates, cards, buz and bird cribbing.
During the winter months I play hurley out of doors. On the winter nights I play card games such as "twenty five" "forty five" "one hundred and ten" "beg of my neighbour "whist" and "besique". When I sit at the fire on winter nights I play buz. Buz can be played among any number of players up to eight or over. Each person in his turn says a number from 1 continuing up to 47. At seven or a multiple of seven each player says buz instead of that number. Whoever forgets to say this is out and so the game continues until all are out except the winner.
During the spring months I play slates. The way(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Daunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fahalea, Co. Cork