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   "Going to the fair" is played by putting a few stones into the cart for pigs, and pulling the cart, and selling the "pigs" and buying "them".
   In winter, I make men, I write and I make figures in the ashes with the tongs.
   In summer we bury stones as dead men.
   For a "swing", a cord is hung out of two trees, and one person sits in it and another swings him.

   

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2. Games I Play

   

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   I play a lot of games. I play "Hidding the buttons", Puthog", "Shaving the Friar", "Toss the herrings", "Selling the Belt", "Skittles". "Marbles". "Jack stones". I amuse myself in playing each of these games at different times. In Winter, I play "Hiding the button", "Puthog", "Shave the poor", "Toss the Herring" and "Selling the Belt". In Summer, I play "Skittles, "Marbles" and "Jack Stones". "Hiding the Button" is played some person going outside the house, and some one inside hides the button and the person

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   James Smith

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Beaghy, Co. Cavan