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School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

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Colehill, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 194

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    Another game I play is shopping A crowd of children come to me and I send them all to the shop for groceries They come back and I ask them Where are the things I sent you for and they say We left them on the top shelf and she says How will I get there and they say On an old broken chair Then she says "If I fall and break my neck and they say Sara pin we care" Then she ask them where will they bury them brother and sisters and they say In the graveyard and she asks them wehrre will they bury her and they say In the ashpit The she runs after them and beats them Another game we play round the fire in Winter is Erl timber lock
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Informant
    James Cassidy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Abbeyshrule, Co. Longford