School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)

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1. Games I Play (continued)

   

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   I play hurling, football, handball, cricket, skittles, four corners, rounders, draughts, cards, cat, hop scotch, tig, marbles, pitch and toss, partners, Ludo, and blind man's buff.

   In playing blind man's buff one boy puts a cloth on his eyes and he tries to catch another boy. If he succeeds the cloth is put on that boy's eyes.

   Tig is played like this all the boys stay in a line One boy stands out and he says a little rhyme touching every boy on the breast and which ever boy the last word falls on has to run after the other boys

   These are some of the rhymes we say when we are playing tig
   P-i-g pig,
   You have the tig,
   S-o-w sow,
   You have it now.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Mullen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Delvin, Co. Westmeath