School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 109
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- Home-made Toys.
We make a top by paring one end of an empty spool of thread as fine as a pen-point, then putting a piece of a stick, pointed very sharply, through the hole of the spool.
We make toy guns out of Coltree. We get a thick Coltree stick, and make a hole in the side of it, midway along the length of the stick. We scoop out the middle of the stick, leaving a big hole. Then we procure a piece of plyable steel that will fit into the hole, and we bend this like a trigger, to shoot pebbles out of the hole.
I often make a sling by getting a piece of leather and putting holes in each end of it. Then I get two pieces of string and fasten them in the holes. When I want to fire a stone from the sling, I place it in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheegorey, Co. Roscommon
