School: Carrowreagh (roll number 16884)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Annie Davidson
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- I can make some toys such as kites, boats, swisses, spinning jinnies, water mills, wind mills, bats, daisy chains, carts, and hurlies.
I made a water mill one day, I got a middling sized turnip and I cut the both sides off it and left it three inches broad.
Then I cut tracks round it so as the water would turn it. The bit of peal has to be left in between the tracks.
Then I bored a hole in the centre of it and put a straight stick through it.
Then I put it under a spout and the water catches in the tracks and it goes round and round very quickly. It takes a good lot of water to turn it and it takes it to be coming from a spout for if it was just coming down a river it would turn it every road and it would not go and if one track was deeper than another it would not go very quick.
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- Willie Beattie
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