School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 176
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- (continued from previous page)If the candle is lighted on a dark night it will give many people a fright.
Whips can be made from rushes by platting three long rushes.
A pop gun can be made from a piece of elder stick about nine inches long. Make a hole through the centre of the stick. Get another piece more slender so that it will go through the hole made in the first stick, around this slender piece tie a little piece of wool on one end. Push into the hole putting the woolly side first. This will push out a cork placed at the end of the first stick. The piece of wadding will also soak water and when pressed through the hole will throw the water as a water gun does.
A straw whistle can be made by getting a straw about 6 inches long, at one end leave a joining about 1/4 inch for the end. The slit as shown in diagram. (drawing on page) But do not cut the piece out. Make(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Wolfe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagraigue, Co. Cork
