School: Castleblayney (2) (roll number 10649)

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1. Games I Play (continued)

   

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   Some children amuse themselves at blackberry picking in Automn. A man the name of Mr Mc Geough gives money for them
   Some children sit round the fire in Winter listening to stories and doing sum testing.
   In Summer the younger children amuse themselves at dressing dolls and playing house

   

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2. Games I Play

   

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   The games I play are:- French-tig, Men came to Work, Tig, Stag, Colours and Crumbs and Crusts.
   When we are playing French-tig, we count up to twenty and whoever is twenty is "it"
   Stag is played in this way:- one person is choshen out of all those

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rae Beattie

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan