School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 448
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- (continued from previous page)old people have are better than the cures which the doctors have, because they are quicker remedies. After a few years these old remedies may be forgotten and it is a pity if they are let die down.
- The old people had more interesting methods of making toys than the few people who presently make them. Those who wanted to make daisy-chains first needed a needle and thread and some daisies. Next they pulled the heads off the daisies. They put a knot on the end of the thread and put the heads along the thread. This was continued until the necklace was completed. It is said that those necklaces were better stronger, and they lasted longer than those present day children make. Children nowadays pull the daisies and make a hole in the end of the stem. This enables the following daisy to be put through the stem and this(continues on next page)
