School: An Mhódh-Scoil, Sligeach

Location:
Sligo, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Tomás Guy
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  2. The games I play at school are Witch's tig. Spy - eye. Sly - fox. Skipping. Hide and seek and a lot others. How we play Spye - eye is that we must have the same numbers of people on each side, say twelve, six on one side and six on the other. Half of them must hide while the others blind and when they have hidden the others six come out of where they are blinding and the come up to where they have to go and if a person runs that was hiding catches the one that was blinding he has to hide again
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