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1. Wake Games and Tricks (continued)

   

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   This would be put spinning and then it would stop and turn over on one of it's sides and then that would be a certain number on top, if that was "pay up" the spinner would have to pay out sixpence or whatever wager was on the game and then if it was "take all" he would take whatever money would be on the table. They played this game one night at a wake in Baldwinstown and they had no place to spin the tutorntutorn only in a hat and one man made nine shillings at the game.

   There was another game used to be played with a piece of a cord or with a handkerchief. Two fellows would catch the cord, each of them would have one end each and one of them would

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   History Edit

   Date

   1 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Nioclás Ó Néill