School: Meath Hill (roll number 7166)

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1. The Games I Play

   

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   The Games I Play

   In Winter we play indoor games, and in Summer outdoor games. The indoor games are building houses which is played with a lot of coloured blocks made of wood in different shapes. Another game is putting a football team together which is played by coloured pieces of cardboard in every shape so that it is very hard to put them together. When it is completed it turns out like the team. The outdoor games are hide-and-seek, and hen and a flock of chickens, a big ship sailing, the farmer wants a wife, bicycle and tig. The hen and flock of chickens is played by a number of girls one of them as the mother-hen, another as the fox and about twelve girls as the chichens. The words said in the game are as follows:

   Mother-hen. What do you want?
   Fox A needle and thread
   Mother-hen. Why do you want the needle and thread
   Fox To sew a sack.
   Mother-hen. Why do you want the sack?
   Fox. To gather sand.
   Mother-hen. Why do you want the sand?
   Fox. To sharpen knives
   Mother-hen. Why do you want the knives?
   Fox. To cut the heads off your chickens

   Bicycle is played by three girls one in front, one behind carrying a girl on her back and holding

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Kieran

   Gender

   Female