School: Raharney (C.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. Conway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)hard balls. Then one of these is put into the large piece of stick and pushed out with the small stick.The force of the pushing out the paper makes a shot. A top is made by getting a piece of stick and paring it into the shape of a top. Then a hole is bored in the top of it, and a nail is put in it. A piece of cord is put round the nail. Then it is thrown on the ground and it spins.
A Jinnie Spinner is made this way. A stem of a clay pipe a large plain pin and a piece of thread are got. The thread is rolled round the pin, (and a piece of thread are got) and a piece of it is left loose at the bottom of the pin. The pin is put in the stem of the pipe and the end of the threadis pulled. Then the pin spins round and round till all the thread is gone off it, and then it comes up to the top of the stem. A(continues on next page)
