School: Annacarter
- Location:
- Mullinaveige, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mary C. Mulligan
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- The Games I play are. Hide and go seek, Catching, Ghost in the Garden and Tipping Tig. Hide and go seek is played in this way, a number of boys go and hide and when they have hidden they shout and two more boys go to search for them. It is a very interesting game.Catching is played in the following way, one boy counts to twenty and the boy that twenty falls on is one of the catchers and then the boy counts to twenty again and the second boy that twenty falls on is the other catcher. Then the two catchers join hands and chase the other boys till they have them all caught. Ghost in the Garden is a very nice game and it is played in this way, one boy acts as father and sends his son into the garden for his shirt and when his son goes into the garden he meets another boy who asks him for(continues on next page)
