School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 297
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- This is a game which is played very often in this district. Boys and girls are the usual players. Two may play it. The necessary requirements are - two pencils and a sheet of paper. They draw a square and then lines in opposite directions. One player takes the letter O and the other takes X. If an O gets between two xs it means one for the player has x. Then he says my fox has caught your goose. The letter x stands for the fox and the letter O stands for the goose. The game is then ended.
Chip Chop Cherry
The above game is very popular in this district with all the young boys. To play this game a pencil and a sheet of paper is necessary. Two boys play it. One of the boys draws a circle on the paper. Then he puts around the circle. The eldest boy starts at a number and says chip chop cherry all the men in Derry would not climb up to chip(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lord's Park, Co. Tipperary
