School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)whoever laughs the first receives the punishment.
- A paper chase is a game played i this town during the long Summer evenings. All the boys gather a bagful of small papers. Then one of the boys say, putting a word on each boy "Hittle, Hottle black bottle you are out". The person whom the word "out" is said on gets out of the crowd. That continued until all but two of the boys are left in the crowd. The other boys run of dropping their share of papers. The two boys who were left behind count one hundred and then they follow the other boys. If they catch any of them they follow after the other boys the next time.
- Collector
- Brian Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bernard Matthews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
