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School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)

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Carrigaline, Co. Cork
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Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 185

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    what falls heads are his. What harps are left are tossed by the second person whose penny was second nearest the stone and so on until all heads are got.
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  2. The Games I Play

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    There are numbers of games such as rounders, blind mans buff, hide and seek, nuts in may, grand old Duke of York, corners, musical chairs, cricket, forfeits, drop of the handkerchief, burnt duck, skipping, hidden treasure.
    Blind Mans Buff.
    One child is blind folded and all the others run round him. He tries to catch someone and then, he has to guess the name of the person he has caught. If he fails to guess right he has to continue and catch someone else if he guesses right the person guessed must be blindfolded
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Beryl Deane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Boycestown, Co. Cork