School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inistíomáin (roll number 16359)

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   Games are a very healthy and useful occupation both for young and old. My favourite games are pickie, flogging tops, rings and hide-and-go-seek. The way I play pickie is I count six flags on the footpath. Then I get a smooth flat stone I get a piece of chalk and mark each bed as we call them. I slide the stone from one bed into number one. When that is done I hope on one lef to number six and when I am coming back I pick up the stone. I do this until I am in sixth and then I buy one. After I buy a bed I can put down my two legs on it. The next player must jump over my bed. I play tops by spinning a top and I get a small ship and I hit the top. I and some other girls join hands and form a ring. We have many rings, ring a ring a rosie, wall flowers, green grass, all around the Mulberry bush and gather nuts in May. We play hide-and-go

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancie Egan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ennistimon, Co. Clare