School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 203
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- I play different games in school and at home, such as Tig, See-Saw, Ghost in the garden. One pretending to be a ghost, and another the Mother, and the rest her children. The mother sends the children for messages, and as soon as they go to the garden the ghost chases them.
Then at last the Mother comes and asks the ghost what it wants there, and he says "I want a needle and thread", "and what do you want the needle for", "To sew my bag", What do you what the bag for" "To carry sand","and what do you the sand for", "To sharpen my knife", "and what do you want to sharpen your knife(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
