School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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This game is generally played in summer because there is not much running in it.
Janey Murphy, Corstown, Ardee, Co. Meath.Four CornersFirst I say, to decide who is going to be the fool in the middle, "Aon, a main a figer, a feim a humb, bumb, thursh, O, U, T spells 'out' and out you must go when I say so". I keep going on saying that until only one girl is left. She is the fool in the middle.
Then the four girls get four stones and stand on them, each girl facing the others. The fool stands in the middle and the four girls have to run from one to the other and the one who is standing in the middle(continues on next page)
