School: Scoil na mBráthar, Clonmel
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S. A. de Faoite
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- Marbles are usually played in Autumn. They can be played in almost every place, but they are usually played in the channels. When the players are going to start. the first player to say "cast off" has first throw at the opponent's marble. There is usually a fixed number on every marble and each time a player hits his 'opponent's marble that is a count for him. Which ever one of the players gets the fixed number first wins the game. Then the other player that is the loser must hand his marble to the winner. There is another way for playing marbles and this way we play it in rings. All the players put down their stake, that is so many marbles. The players then take their turns and the players knocking the most marbles outside the rings wins the game. My father gave me sixpence to make ninepence out of it. I told him I could do it. I went to the shop and I bought three penny buns I brought three pence change to my father and three pence to the shopkeeper that was the sixpence made the ninepence. My mother sent me for the Irish Press I when I returned back to my mother, my mother asked me to know did I get the press. I said no mother but I got the paper. What is it that is running from Clonmel to Dublin. Answer the road. I have a little house and a mouse would not fit in it. and all the men in town could not count the windows in it(continues on next page)
