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   is also played a boy gets in and all the rest join up and form a ring
   When the boy gets out they all follow him and whoever catches him is the bull.

   

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   Skittles are played with five small pieces of round sticks and numbers cut in them from one up to five. You stand them around in a ring with the five in the middle. Three more big sticks are thrown at them and every skittle kocked out is counted by the number that is on it. Who-ever gets thirty and one the first is the winner. Kattles Kattry is played by four boys two boys get a stick each and the other two boys make a ring behind them. The two boys behind the ring throw a small round piece of a stick called a cat. If the boy with the stick hits it he runs from ring to ring and counts one for every run. If the boy misses the cat and it goes into the

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Butler

   Address

   Newcastle, Co. Wexford