School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 140
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- One of the most exciting games we play at school is four corners.
Five boys play this game.
Four stones are placed at each corner of a square.
Four boys stand at t stone each and move from stone to stone.
If the boy who stands in the middle is quick enough to get position of a stone the boy who looses the stone is then fool in the middle.
The boy who holds on to a stone wins the game.
Another of the games I play at school is "Stilts".
"Stilts" is played by a good number of boys.
Two sticks are got with steps on them and they are called a pair of stilts.
You can have the stilts any length you like.
When starting to walk on stilts first you get small ones.
Three or four start to gather to walk on the stilts and whichever boy walks the farthest without falling wins the game.
- Collector
- Peadar Mc Geough
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
