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1. Games I Play

   

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   There are many games children play both outdoor
   and indoor. In winter girls play jackstones, table-
   tennis, cards, and draughts. Boys play skittles, pitch
   and toss, football, and cricket.
   The games we usually play at school are "Ghost in
   the garden", "blocks" "Bird in my pocket," "Ring o' rosies,"
   "The Lady on the Mountain," "Queenie L.O," "Jig," "Slide
   and Sack," "bolours", "Skipping," "Cat and Mouse", "Catching
   a ball", "bock-Tight", "Four Corners."
   Ghost in the Garden:- One girl sits in the corner
   of the garden and another girl acts a mother to the
   children, and sends them in town in the garden
   for something. When they go the ghost chases them
   away. When they go back and tell their mother
   she gets behind her children and brings them up

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Violet Matthews

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath