School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Droichead na Bandan, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 252
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- I play many games. Some I play in winter and others I play in summer.
Some of the games I play are:- beat the donkey, rats and rabbits, hide and seek, colours and hunt.
There are other games I play indoors. Some of them are:- burn the biscuit, ludo, snakes and ladders, and cards, and on the very cold nights we ask riddles while we sit around a nice warm fire.
This is the way you play beat the donkey.
Get a scarf or something that will not hurt. Get all the people to get into a ring; then run around the ring and beat someone and them beat the person around the ring.
This is the way you play rats and rabbits. Two people pick teams and then line them up behind each other. Then someone stands in front and calls out R-r-r-r-r-r-r rats, or R-r-r-r-r rabbits, and if she calls out rats, the rabbits chase the rats and as many as are caught are put on the rabbit's team.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Richards
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Droichead na Bandan, Co. Chorcaí
