School: Ferns (C.) (roll number 13267)

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1. Games I Play (continued)

   

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   outdoors. In the winter we play games indoors.- We play hide the thimble, one of the players goes round to each of the other players with a thimble hidden in his hands. He drops it into one of the players hands and the other players have to guess who has it. We also ask a lot of riddles while sitting round the fire on the cold winter nights.

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2. Games I Play

   

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   The following is Mollie O'Brien's account -

   I play "Fox" by going out to pick nuts and pretending that we meet "Foxes, and they run us and bring us off and kill us.
   We play "Three men out to work Sir" by going to someone and saying "Three men out to work" and he says "whats your trade Sir" we answer "anything you like. He says then, turn round and do it, we turn round and do something, if he or she knows what we do, some one else must be the man.

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