School: Castledockrill (roll number 6598)
- Location:
- Mountfin Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Seosamh de Hál
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- 290Games I Play
I play nut cracking in Autumn.
I play draughts, card and ludo in the winter.
I play tip the can, tip the finger, marbles, tig, handkerchief, fox and rabbit, hide and go seek, high gates, and fox, little cissie saucepan, frog in the middle, apple and orange, a bunch of rags. In the night I play draughts, fox and goose, snakes and ladders, ludo, filly four corners, blind baby, donkey, and strip Jack.
When there is snow on the ground I make a snowman. When I have the man made I get a snow ball and I hit the man with it and knock him down.
I play a number of other great games in school.
A crowd of us form a ring and we sing some (ryh) rhymes. We always have(continues on next page)- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Laoghaire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tomgarrow, Co. Wexford