School: Bellanagare (roll number 2968)

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1. The Games I Play

   

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   There are many games played by the children in my district on winter evenings. The games which are played are colours, hopscotch, highgates skipping, seesaw and catching. The games played in the spring are colours, skipping, seesaw and catching. Those which I enjoy best are colours, high gates, hopscotch and see-saw. Colours can be played out - of doors on a fine spring's evening. A large number of children gather together in a field.
   Two of the children go away from the rest of the children while a third child gives different colours to the others. When every child has a colour the two children appointed come and call for the colours. When all the colours are called the two children take hands and the other children join behind them and each side pulls against each other. Whichever side breaks loose the game.
   See-saw is a vey nice game and can be played by two children. A long plank is placed on a high log of wood. The children sit on each end of the plank and weigh up and down singing gaily. High gates is a game very much practised. A number of children join hands and form a circle and a girl stands in the centre of the circle and counts on the

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Geraghty

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Michael Geraghty

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   Bellanagare, Co. Roscommon