School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)and asks questions till she finds out who the child is. The child that was out must ask the other girl questions to which she can answer "Yes or No" such as " Is her hair black", "Is she young", and so on.
"Cargoes" is played by one child getting into the middle of the ring and she says "The ship came in with cargoes full of". Who ever she asks answers a noun beginning with the letter (a) and if she has not answered when the questioner has counted up to ten she has to go into the ring and ask questions only the answers must begin with the letter (B) and so on till the alphabet is finished.
In school on wet days we play a game called "fuzz-buzz". Fuzz is for five and "buzz" is for seven or the multiple of each numbers. The way you do it is everyone counts from one to a hundred in their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Mc Clelland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
