School: Moher
- Location:
- Moher, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: J. Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0969, Page 184
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- The games I play are
(A) tig,
(B) ghost in the garden
(C) frog in the well,
(D) knife or fork
(E) plums are the biggest but,
(F) cherries are the sweetest,
(G) Blind man's buff and many othersGhost in the garden is played this way. One boy is to go away and hide. He is the ghost. Another boy is to be the mother and the others children. The mother must send some of the children out to the garden for their father's shirt. Then the ghost leaps out of his hiding place and the children run back to the mother and tell there is a ghost in the garden. Then the mother says "let us all go" Then the mother and the children to out to the garden and see the ghost. The mother asks him what does he want He answers a needle and thread. The mother asks him what does he want the needle and thread for? He answers to sew my bag.
Mother what do you want to sew your bag for?
Ghost to carry my sand.
Mother what do you want to carry your sand for?
Ghost to sharpen my knife.
Mother what do you want to sharpen your knife for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patsy Leddy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilnacranagh, Co. Cavan
