School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 055
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- (continued from previous page)button goes from one to the other
with the button and drops it into
one girls hands without the rest seeing
her. Then she asks the rest who
has the button and to those who
answer incorrectly she will give,
with a strap, three slaps on the
hand. Whoever guesses the right one
first will then go around with the
button, and so on like that.
- The game I usually play is
Witch
Ten or eleven or more girls
come together, and all stand up
against a wall. Three of them stand
out of the crowd. One of the three
is supposed to be the Witch, and
another of them the mother, and
the third the servant girl.
The witch goes down the road(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rosie Mc Gahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pepperstown, Co. Louth
