School: Colthurst, Ráth Cúil
- Location:
- Rathcool, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- Get a turnip and scoop out the middle of it having first peeled the skin off. Keep scooping out the middle until you have a shell about a quarter of an inch thick. Then cut two round holes for eyes and a long hole for a nose and another hole the shape of a mouth. When you are making the mouth make four or five teeth also.
To make a toy cannon, get a piece of cross-bar of an old mans bicycle about eight inches long for a muzzle. Tie a piece of rubber about six inches long to one end of the piece of bar and tie a middling thick piece of stick on to the rubber also. Before you tie the rubber to the stick put one end of it into the muzzle then you have the(continues on next page)
