School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)
- Location:
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)has the button" and after all have guessed, he says "Button, Button, show for all the fools you know" and then who ever has the button has to get up and do the same thing again.
There is also another game which we play at school and it is this frog jumping.
Frog jumping is done in the following manner first of all a boy stoops down and then all the other boys try to leap over him.
This game is only played in Summer time because the children are barefooted and it would be to dangerous if the children had boots on them.
- The different names of the games we play are as follows
Football. Tig, Spinning Tops, playing hide and seek and Corners.
The game I like best of all these is Spinning Tops. The game is played in the following manner :-
First of all you get a large cord and a top(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullaboy Lower, Co. Cavan
