School: Fedamore (B.) (roll number 14068)
- Location:
- Fedamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Martin Moloney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 428
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- Making bird traps, snares, rounders, hand balls, Donkey, Queenie, Long ball, Picky, Toss ball, Caps, Hide and Seek, Tig, Blind man's buff (Pincín), Four corners, kidnapper's Duck
If you were playing Donkey one would get a ball and throw it to some one else if he failed to catch it he would be called D. and so on a long until some one be Donkey.CapsA crowd would put their down on the road One fellow gets a a and rolls it along into one of the caps who ever owns the cap must get the ball and hit someone of the crows with it. Who ever it is a stone is put into his cap Who ever has twelve stones the first gets a kick from every one of the crowd.DuckA crowd of boys gets a stone each and that is called a duck. They get a big rock which they call a granny they pitch their ducks to the granny who ever is the farthest from granny has to put his duck on the granny for the rest of them to throw at.QueenieA crowd gets together and plays Queenie. One goes before the crowd with his back turned to them he throws the ball over his head Someone of the crowd gets it. Then they say Queenie. The one in front of them turns(continues on next page)
