School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)the cat is got and brought back. The players bowling may shout boundary and this will mean four runs to th others. If the cat is lost it means six runs. The bowling continues till someone throws the cat into the ring. Then the other pair get in to hit. If the cat is caught after being hit both hitters are out. Sometimes there are teams and as one player is knocked out another from his side takes his place till they are all out. Then the other side gets in. The side that make the biggest score wins the game.
- I play the following games:- tig, hide-and-seek, cook, [?] broken gates, cards and rings, cat Queeny, O, spy, and leap-frog.
This is how tig is played: One of the players counts the others till he reaches twenty. The person who gets number twenty has the tig. The other players run away from him and he runs after them and he tries to tip(continues on next page) - Collector
- Laurence Mc Nally
- Gender
- Male
