School: Grianán (roll number 13178)
- Location:
- An Grianán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máiréad Bean Uí Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0094, Page 149
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is also another game we play. It is called, "Doggie". A few boys and girls join in a ring and one stays out and walks around outside the ring and he says "I had a little dogie, his name is Buff. I sent him up to the town for a box of snuff and I think of my story for long enough." Then he hits some-body with his hand and that person has to catch the one that strikes him. In summer we play. "hide and go seek," in the fields or on the mountains. During the long sunny evenings of summer when we go home from school we go out to the fields with a rope and we tie it to a tree.(continues on next page)
