School: Craanford (roll number 8060)
- Location:
- Craanford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0889, Page 126
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- GamesLong ago the children used to amuse themselves by playing many games of which the most common was skittles, Jack-stones and Ball-in-the-Hat.Skittles was played with ten pieces of short sticks which were placed upright in a circle marked on the ground. A person got a skittle or piece of stick and tried to knock the othe sticks outside the circle. The sticks were all numbered from 1 to 10, and according to the number of sticks you knocked out in a certain number of times the points were awarded.Another game played was Jack-Stones. Jackstones were five small round stones, one a little longer than the other. There were many different games of Jackstones.
"Ball-in-the-hat was played very easy: If five players were talking part in the game; five hats were placed against a wall. A ball was got and the first player tried to put the ball into a particular hat. Each time the ball was put into a hat the player gained five points. The player got five chances but he could put the ball into(continues on next page)
