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   Then I made eight little dulls from horse hair and tied them up over the cord. Then I shook sperry round the place. The birds always lit on the cord and got caught in the dulls. I also made a plug gun. I got a stick about as thick as the pump of a bicycle and a half foot long from a boortree and made a hole up the middle of it with a red iron. Then I made what is called the ramrod. I got another piece of wood and pared it until it fitted the hole exactly. I filled one end with paper or flax and then blew into it and filled the other end. Then I knocked them out with the ramrod and it make a shot.
   The old people used to make bows and arrows. They first got a thick stick about two foot long and made a trough in it. Then at one end, they make a hole through it and at the other end make a deep nick. They put a thin scaly rod through the hole and tie a cord to each end of the hole and catch it in the nick. Then they put a piece of a stick in the trough and let go the cord out of the nick and it would send the stick ten

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. toys (~1,598)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brian Mc Cann

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killatee, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Brian Mc Cann

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killatee, Co. Cavan