School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)the squares facing them I have to turn my back to them and start throwing the stone over my head till I end at number ten, hopping backwards too and lifting the stone as I hop backwards.
- The game, Colours, is played thus. First a number of girls come together. They all stand together in a row along a wall. Two girls A and B, stand out of the row. A comes back over and tells the rest of the girls the colours they are to have.
When she comes back A, whom B has not heard telling the colours, says:- "All the birds in the air, All the fishes in the sea. Could not point me out who(continues on next page)- Collector
- Berna Mathews
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Arthurstown, Co. Louth