School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
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- (continued from previous page)If he gets in he guards the other from it. When they all get the hole they go on to the second hole and do the same. They must get each hole three times and the first person that gets the last hole on the third round wins the game. A term used is, cut him off the brink.When we are playing "hunt-the-fox" a crowd of boys gather together and one boy goes off to be the fox and the others follow him. We usually play it in school at lunch time. When we are playing frog-jump one boy stoops down and each one of the others lays his hands on the stooped person's back and jumps over him. When we are playing donkey four or five boys get in a ring a couple of yards away from one another and they throw a ball from one to the other and they try to catch it.
A crowd of boys play Fisherman's net. Two boys catch hands and they follow the others(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Dominick Hearn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
