School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 080
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- During my leisure hours I always find something to do and something to amuse myself. I make little articles of wood such as tops guns, motors and things like that.
When I am making a top I get a spool and cut it in the middle. I get a piece of a stick and put it into the hole. Then I put it on the table or on the floor, and I bring it round in my fingers and it spins delightfully.
When I am making a gun I get my saw and cut a branch off an elder tree. I bring it into a little house that I have and cut into a half - food length. Next I take the skin off it and I clean the the hole that runs through the centre of it. I put a plug made of paper in one end of the hole and I also put another plug in the other end. Then I get the rod and crushes the two plugs out of it and it lets a shot like a common gun.
Other times when I am doing nothing I get a box and puts four(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hugh Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullalougher, Co. Cavan
