School: Ballyfoyle, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13510)
- Location:
- Baile an Phoill, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)knocked down during the Famine.
- I play many games between indoor and out door. My indoor games are Snap, Donkey, Old Maid, Rummy, Sevens, Twenty-five, Rings, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Steeplechase and Billards. My outdoor games are, hurling, foot-ball, tig, colours, corners, Dan, Dan, and Hide-and-go-Seek. The real old games my mother used to play when she was going to school was Jack Stone and Blind-man's-Buff and many others. Donkey is a great game. You should get all the knaves, kings, and Queens Then whoever was the first to get four kings, four Queens or four Knaves would say Donkey and who ever had their cards down last would be D. Old Maid is a good game also. One card should be pulled out of the pack and the rest matched. Then everyone would have odd cards in their hands. When the game is finished one person has a card left and he is the Old Maid. The card he has left matches with the card on the table.(continues on next page)
