School: Trentagh (roll number 16331)
- Location:
- Treantagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Pheadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 088
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- (continued from previous page)It is called blackberry jelly.
- Catching Birds.
When I was small I used to try to catch wild birds. I got a riddle and a short forked piece of a stick and a long string. I set the riddle on its edge and propped it up with the forked stick. Then I tied the string to the stick. I got some corn then and scattered it where the riddle would fall. Then I took the other end of the string and hid myself round a corner. If a wild bird would fly down and begin to eat the corn I would pull the string and the stick would come from under the riddle, and the riddle would fall over the bird so that it could not get away. - Collector
- Joseph Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Treanbeg, Co. Donegal
