School: Scrabagh (roll number 11202)
- Location:
- Scrabbagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs Rose Ffrench
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- (continued from previous page)games. All the neighboring children gathered in and we played many different sorts of tricks. First we tied an apple from the ceiling and everyone attempted to get a bite, while the apple swung hither and thither. When the zest of the company for this attraction had spent itself we placed a coin in a basin of water and each one tried to retrieve it, but unless he or she was very handy the result was a good wetting. Then we played tricks with the saucers. We put clay on one, in another water, and in another a ring, in another a cross and in the last a thimble. Each one was blindfolded in turn and he reached for a saucer. The first saucer touched indicated the person's fate. The clay means death, the water a voyage, the ring marriage, the cross a religious life, the thimble the career of an old maid. At last games and cracking nuts wore us out, and we(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emily Caslin
- Gender
- Female
