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School: Trentagh (roll number 16331)

Location:
Treantagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Nic Pheadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 077

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    Games.
    (1) The games we play outside are:-
    Hide - and - go - seek. The way we play this game is, somebody has to stay to find us, and we must find out who it is to be. First of all, the children form a line, and some person stays out of the line to say a rhyme, and each word that she says she touches a child. The rhyme that we say in hide - and - go - seek is:-
    Mrs Hippy broke a basin,
    How much shall it be.
    Half-a-crown, pay it down,
    And out goes she.
    The person who "she" falls on is out of the line, and then the person who is giving out the tig continues with the rhyme as before, and always the person who "she" falls on has to go out of the line, and so on until one is left in the line. She has to close her eyes and then we all go to hide. Whenever we are hidden we call "cuckoo", and then the person who has her eyes covered
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Harley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Treantagh, Co. Donegal