School: St Columb's Moville
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hamilton Stewart
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- Home Made Toys
Nearly every boy and girl are employed in their spare time by making some toys or snares.
In olden times in our district a tor that was greatly made was tops. There are three different kinds of tops, air-top, peg-top, and a whip-top. The whip-top was greatly used in our district by the old people. It is like a peg top but has a little whip and you can keep it spinning for hours, shown thus:- [picture of whip-top]
Then we come to the air-top which was seldom used by the old people but you can have good sport out of it. It is similar to the peg-top only it spins in the air instead of the ground. Here is a little drawing of it. [picture of air-top]
Then comes the peg-top, this one is liked in our district. It is like the air-top but spins on the ground. A drawing is shown thus;- [picture of peg-top]. You then(continues on next page)- Collector
- Hamilton Stewart
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal