School: Cill Átha (roll number 9298)

Location:
Killagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mrs Pender

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School Games

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0158

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Games afford great amusement for young and old. There are outdoor and indoor games. Outdoor games are healthy and in some cases even necessary. Persons who are engaged in business indoor, could not be healthy, if they did not take part in outdoor games. As food is necessary for the body so is exercise.
The games I play at school are, Hide-and-seek, Rabbit-Burrow, Fox and Chickens, High-Gates and China Cup and Saucer.
Half of us go and hide and when they are hidden the remainder of us search for them. When

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Collector
Mary Clarke
Gender
female
Age
14
Language
English