School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 313
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- The Games I play.Fox and Geese
Make a square on a sheet of paper and draw lines down and across. Each player chooses an naught or an ex and when has it choosen he puts it down on the paper on one of the squares. if he gets an ex between two naughts he can cut off the naught and put an ex in its place. Then who ever has th emost naughts or ex's wins the game.
A Little Pig went to the market is played by saying off a rhyme ends while doing so counting your fingers.
This little Pig went to the market
This Little pig stayed at home
This Little pig got bread and butter,
This little pig got none.
- Collector
- Gerald Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
