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School: Corboy, Meathús Truim (roll number 11421)

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Corboy, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Susan Stephens
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 061

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  1. Homemade Toys

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    Other children and I used to amuse ourselves making daisy chains in the fields.
    First of all we used to gather a number of daisies then we used to make a small hole in the stem of the daisy and pull another daisy through the hole we used to keep on doing that till we had a daisy chain made. On May day we used to decorate a bush with the chains.
    A Top
    There are different kinds of toys which boys make, such as tops
    A top is made out of a thread spool. You put a stick with a point down the hole in the spool then you pare the end of the spool in a point.
    A Face
    Many boys make faces out of turnips. You get a turnip and put
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Georgena Denniston
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Drumnacross, Co. Longford