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School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)

Location:
Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1105, Page 194

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  1. How to Make a Whistle

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    When you are going to make a whistle you get a sycamore branch about the length of your hand and about the thickness of your finger and you batter it round and round with a stone until you can pull the skin off. Then you pull the skin off and make a three crrnered hole in the skin then you cut a bit off the stick and put the skin on again so that the bit that you cut off is level with the hole then you blow in it and it will whistle
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Galbraith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromore, Co. Donegal