School: Scoil na mBráthar, Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Br. T. S. Ó Maoilchiaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 098
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- (continued from previous page)Skittles: Skittles is a very simple to play. There are a number of pieces of wood in the from of men with numbers on them such as ten or five or twenty and fifty and a lot more. The players have a ball and with this the players whose chance it is throws it at the skittles. If he hit ten then that would be ten marked for him. If the game were for a hundred the player that would get hundred first would win.
Leap- frog: Leap frog is played as follows- say if there were five fellows playing the five of them would stoop down. Then the first fellow would jump over the second and third and fourth fellows back and it on until he would come to the end the second fellow would do the same and the third fourth and fifth would do it too until it would come to the first fellow again, and it would go on, and on like that.(continues on next page)
