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School: Swanzy Memorial N. S. (roll number 10428)

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Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eilis F. Ní Stiobháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 130

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    Home-made Toys
    Boys and girls amuse themselves in making toys. Girls string chains of daisies, and make dolls and skipping.
    Boys make tops out of thread spools, snare rabbits and hares, trapping birds and making a face out of a turnip and making boats.
    Elder people make guns, and build Easter houses.
    Daisy strings are make with daisies. We gather a handful or more of daisies and we put a hole in the (stean) stem of the daisy and put the stem of the other daisy through it and pull it till the head catches and so on till the chain
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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
    Joe Ayton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Balleeghan, Co. Donegal