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1. Homemade Toys

   

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   Every boy and girl find great amusements in spare time in making their own toys. The girls, and indeed, boys too, gather a bundle of daisies while herding the cows in the warm summer mornings, and make long necklaces by joining them together.
   The boys make spinning ginnies from a spool and put a piece of stick in the centre for a spike, and we can make two of them from a spool by cutting it in two.
   We can make guns from a boortree stick by cutting the soft white pulp out of the centre of it and it makes a good gun. Another home made toy represents a monkey up a stick, and when you squeeze the frame the wee man jumps about. It is made from a piece of flat wood. Then, again, we make toy whips from rushes by pleating the rushes together by one rush which is rolled round them. Then for a last we pleat the rushes and put a piece of whip cord for a crack and it can crack quite loudly.
   Kitemaking is still carried on as a home made toy by making a frame and covering it with a bag or a sheet of paper. A long

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