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1. Blind Booby

   

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   Blind Booby
   A crowd of boys or girls would collect together in a field and they would make a large circle and they would all stand inside of it. Then someone would be blindfolded and he would try and catch some of the crowd. None of the players would be allowed to go outside the circle, if they did so they would have to be Blind Booby. Blind Booby would go around with his two hands out in front of him and he trying to catch somebody, and all the rest of the company making fun of him and "making faces" behind his back. Then there would be great excitement when Blind Booby would catch somebody. All the rest of the boys would make right fun of

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   History Edit

   Date

   19 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Dómhnall de Buitléir