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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (roll number 11855)

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Buttevant, Co. Cork
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 367

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    The games I play are, hunting, hide and seek, skipping, spinning tops, ludo, draughts, rings, darts, snakes, and ladders, bricks, table-tennis, musical chairs and blind man's buff.
    Hide and seek is played by a number of children. One would seek and the rest would hide. Then the one who is seeking would look for the others and the one he would catch first would then seek.
    Hunting can be played by any number of children. One child hunts and the others run off. The child who is hunting would try to catch the others. Then those who are caught would catch hands and hunt the others.
    Ludo is a very nice game and it is played with a board, a dice and men. The person shakes the dice and whatever number he gets he moves the men. The
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Power
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockbarry, Co. Cork