School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 280
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- (continued from previous page)One girl gets a handkerchief tied round her eys and she has to go round till she catches a girl. The girl whom she catches has the handkerchief put on her eyes and she has to catch some-one else and so on. That is the way Blind-man's Buff is played.
Tom Fool in the Middle is played as follows:- first of all there are dens made for the number of girls who are playing, and there is always one person in the middle who has no den. The ones who have dens pass from one den to another and the person in the middle tries to get into one of the dens. The person whose den she gets into is made the Tom Fool.
Hop-Scotch is played as follows:- first of all there are six squares made, then one girl hops around in every den. She then puts a stone on her hand and she hops round without letting it fall. Then she puts a stone on her foot,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Mc Entyre
- Gender
- Female
