School: Kiffa

Location:
Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 077

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  1. The games which we play indoor at school are "Proverbs", "Yes and no", and "Cargoes".
    The way we play "Proverbs", is one child goes out side and all the rest are inside in a row and they get a proverb, for instance "There is no place like home", "Easy made laugh easy made cry", "Hills far away are green", and many others. They take one of these and everyone gets a word, then they call in who ever is outside and she asks a question to everyone in their turn and they answer and put their word into it when they are all asked she tries to find out what the proverb is then the next goes out and the same thing happens.
    "Yes and No" is played by one child going out of the room the other children pick out a person then the other child comes in
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Mc Clelland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kiffagh, Co. Cavan