School: Machaire
- Location:
- Magherintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ó Reilly
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- Games I play.
Many a time when the weather is fine I amuse myself playing all sorts of games with my brothers and sisters.
The games we play oftenest are, - Hide and go seek, High-windows, Corners, Tome fool in the middle, skittles Bling man's buff, Frog in the well, Cat and dog, Lord Juke Lord John and Colours. The way in which we play "Hide and go seek" is - one person goes away and hides and when the other person thinks that his comrade is hid he goes in search of him.
"Corners" are played by placing a person at each end of a square and another person in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hugh Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumacleeskin, Co. Cavan
