Scoil: Mounttrenchard, Leamhchoill (uimhir rolla 2540)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Games for Special Occasions (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Then the players, having their hands tied behind their backs, try to get the apple with their mouths. It is not such an easy thing to do, and there is great fun, for the players often get a good ducking and swallow some of the water, and at the same time do not get the apple.

   A similar game is played by putting coins in the bottom of a pan of water. Sometimes they play "Snap apple", by tying a cord across the room, a little higher than those who are about to play the game. Then the apples are hung off this cord, and we must jump and try to snap them off. We place four saucers on the table. We put earth in one, water in another, Rosary beads in the third, and a ring in the fourth. Then the player

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Helen O' Donovan

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

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