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1. Homemade Toys

   

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   Home-made Toys Girls made daisy chains with strings of daisys. Boys made spinning tops out of spools. They also played jack-stones by getting a number of stones and throwing them up in the air, and who-ever would get the most stones on the back of their hand, would win the game. The boys made guns with elder branches. Got from, Mrs. D. Maguire, Poolboy, Ballinasloe,

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   1. gníomhaíochtaí
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   Mrs D. Maguire

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   Female

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   An Poll Buí, Co. na Gaillimhe

2. Homemade Toys

   

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   2. Long ago people made cribs for catching birds. These were made out of sally rods. They bent the rods and plaited them together. They were then set near a hedge and were kept up off the ground by a small piece of rod. Frosty days were considered

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