School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 127
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- Any number of players can play this game. The players stand in a line facing the same way. One player stands in front of the others and thinks of a colour. He asks the others in turn to name the colour he has thought of. The player in the line who thinks of the right colour follows the other player around and tries to catch him. The player caught is sent to "Hell" by being made to pass under an archway of hands and beaten on the back while doing so. The player who caught him then thinks of a colour and carries on as the first player had done.
- Collector
- Séamas O Broin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbally, Co. Laois
