School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)and so on. When this is settled between them, they return to where the boys are standing, and form the ring round them again. They all pretend to do the action agreed on together, while the boys in the centre try to guess what action it is that the others are pretending to do. When one of them guesses correctly, the ring breaks, the boys forming it all rush for the "den" while those who were in the centre follow and try to touch some of them before they reach the den. Any boy so touched has now to take his place in the centre and the boy who touched him goes out to the ring. The same thing is done again and again, and as there is a lot of running and twisting, the game makes us very warm.
Frog Leaping. We play this game in summer, when the ground is very dry. A number of boys, of the same height or near it, form a large ring round the playground, they then stoop till their fingers touch the ground. One boy starts runs to the boy in front of him, places his two hands on his back, and jumps or rather "vaults" clear(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
