School: Gaile, Caisleán Mumhan (roll number 15299)
- Location:
- Gaile, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Meachair
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- (continued from previous page)In and out the Windows.
A crowd of boys gather in a ring and one stays in the middle. All in the ring go around with their eyes closed and the person in the middle throws a paper at someone's feet and he follows the person. The others hold up their hands and the other two run in and out through them. If the person that was following caught the other he would be in the middle and so on. That is why it is called in and out the windows - How I play Donkey
First of all I deal the cards and give them out between the players. Then the next person to me is to lay. The person that lays the card is to leave the card at the side of her cards. If the card was seven of anything and if the next person has an eight he could put it on the other person's seven.The higher card covers the lower one. If an ace is got it is put out and the the deuce and so on up as far as the king. Who(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Darmody
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gaile, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mary Darmody
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gaile, Co. Tipperary