School: Ballinea (roll number 10426)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Farrell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 120
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- When playing "Trades" the girls divide into two groups each led be a chosen girl.
One group think of a certain trades at which to work and pretend to work as it.
the other groups come and watch them "working". They try to guess the trade from their actions.
If they guess the right trade they follow the traders and try to catch some of them before they reach a certain place which has been agreed upon beforehand.
Any girls caught must go with the guessers thus increasing their number and making the number of traders less.
If they do not guess correctly they retire until the trade is changed and they start guessing again. The trade is changed each time(continues on next page)
