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   teams lime up a few yards apart and face each other. Then when it is decided which team starts first, the captain of the team says: "As I went down the town I went into a shop and bought a pound of W.S" or some other thing. Then the other team guesses what it is . If they guess right they must follow the opposite side. If they catch any boy before he reaches a certain place that boy joins the side by which he was caught. Then the other side gets its chance to ask. The game continues like that until all the boys from one side are taken.

   

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   Carry and Seek This game is played on the streets in Summer. A number of boys gather together. There are two teams with an even number of boys on each team. Then they toss for which team hides first. Whoever wins the toss goes off hiding. The other team stay as a wall which is called "The Den". When the team is hidden the others go seeking them. If a boy that is hiding catches one of the others the boy that is caught must carry the other back to "Den". Then that boy joins

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Henry O' Neill

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny