School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Baile an Aird, Co. Lú
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 047
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- (continued from previous page)ring and challenges the other players to go from the stick to the buck in, say, thirty strides. One of them generally accepts the challenge. If he reaches the buck in thirty or fewer strides, the striker has gained points; but if he takes more than thirty, the striker has scored thirty points.
We play for a certain number, usually fifty, and the boy who reaches that number first wins the game.
- The game hide-and-seek is played like this:- There is a number of people in a circle. One in the middle says, while pointing at the rest,
"Hulom, bulom, limber, look,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridie Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roseybrook, Co. Lú
