School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 231
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Some children often get into a little corner and play school. About two or three of the children pretend to be teachers and the rest scholars. They go through all the subjects and the teachers often slap the scholars.
- Four get a corner each for themselves and another one goes in the middle. She is called a "fool".The others all run to each others corners, but, if the fool runs into a corner while the person who owns it is absent, that person is the fool and the game goes on in the same way.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Galvin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
