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School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)

Location:
Galbally, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 097

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    whip and following the others.
    Follow my Mammy to the market is played by some one - an old woman - telling the rest what to do before she hoes to the market and when she is gone the rest will follow her and will not do what she told them to do.
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  2. Games I Play

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    I play many games but here are my favourite ones :-
    Hide and go Seek,
    Blind Booby,
    Wallflowers
    Drop the Handkerchief
    Skipping
    and Camogie.
    The game of Hide and go Seek is played by one girl putting her hands on her eyes or going in some place that she could not see the rest of the players. Then the other players hide and when they have this done they would shout "Cook." Then the girl who puts her hands over her
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymorris, Co. Wexford