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1. Childrens' Games - Taws (continued)

   

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   to prevent the other two boys from getting near the hole. Then the next boy fires his taw and probably he comes to the very brink of the hole. Then the third boy fires and he may come near the hole also. Now the first boy gets his taw and aims at the taw nearest the hole and fires. If he is a good shot he drives his opponents taw three or four yards away from the hole. Although his taw remained dead in the very shot where it hit the other taw. When he hit the other taw he has leave to fire again, so he fires at the second boy's taw and probably drives that away from the hole. Then the other

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   History Edit

   Date

   19 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Dómhnall de Buitléir