School: St Columb's Moville

Location:
Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Hamilton Stewart
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 296

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  1. 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
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hamilton Stewart
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal