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1. Tricks

   

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   There was a trick that the people used to play in my district. It was "tell a person go outside the door and tell him that you would take him in through the key-hole with a spoon". Then when you would get him out, warm a spoon and put it out through the key-hole and when he would catch it it would burn his hand.
   Another trick was to get a person to sit down on a small stool with a coal under it. Then tell him that you would take the coal from under the stool with out him seeing you. So when he would be watching you taking the coal, go behind his back and pull the stool from under him.

   

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2. Games

   

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   There were games that young girls used to play. One was a ring of girls would catch and hands and be saying a rhyme that was "Round the green gravel the grass grows green. Mary a lady fit to be seen. Washed with milk, dried with silk, and last pop down." Then the last girl that was down would be put in the middle and asked which boy did she like best. So the two

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Gertie Bohan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derreen, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs J. Mallon

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   48

   Occupation

   Mason's wife

   Address

   Derreen, Co. Leitrim