School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)about an inch off the ground. Place some bread crumbs under it then so that when a bird he will perch on the bough and its weight will release the trigger and the basket will fall down on him.
In olden times before there were any toy factories the old people used to make toys for their children. They used to make dolls out of rags for them. They used to fold the rags and sew them together in the shape of a doll.
They used to make necklaces out of daisies and berries and nuts. They used to gather very long daisies and put a hole in the stems of them and put another daisy through the hole. They used to get a long thread and needle and put a hole in the berry and put the thread through the hole and the same with the next berry and so on. They used to make the necklaces out of the nuts the same as the berries.
