School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camros, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 275
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- Such as: Prisoners, Blind Man's Bluff, Dan, Dan, Thread the needle. The Game of Blind Man's Bluff, consisting of tying a piece of cloth round the eyes. Then the blind one must catch one of the other boys. Then he takes the cloth and so on.
Prisoners; Consisting of an equal number of players on each side. Each party has a "den". When one was caught it of this den by opposing part they are then prisoners.
Dan, Dan, Thread the needle; consisting of two people catching hands and the rest of the children passing under their hands. The last boy would be kept each time until there would be an equal number on each side. Then they would pull until one side would throw the other side.
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