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School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

Location:
Stormanstown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 049

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  1. Local Games - Hopscotch

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    The game I like best is Hop Scotch. Four or five can play this game, one at a time. First I make with a tick ten squares on a road. Then I get a little flat stone and begin throwing it into the squares starting at number one. Then I begin hopping at number one. When I reach number ten I turn and come back, and do not finish till I come back to one. As I reach number one I lift the stone and hop on till I get outside the squares, and if I leave down my foot I have to start at the beginning again. I keep going on like that till I end at number ten.
    But if I miss the number I am going for, I have to wait till whoever is playing with me finishes and then I try to get the number I want.
    When I have got all
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Breen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cookstown, Co. Louth