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School: An Clochán (roll number 1364)

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An Clochán Beag, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seóirsín R. Middleton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1093, Page 250

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    In summertime I spend a lot of time, stringing flowers, especially daisies.
    This is how I string daisies, I get a long stem of a daisy. With a pin I put a small split in the end of the stem. I get another daisy and put the stem of it into the split of the first. I do the same with the second and so on until I have a lot of them together in one long string.
    It is better not to have very long stems on them for they do not look pretty. The flower of one daisy is too far apart from the rest of the flowers.
    But when you get to the last flower look for a very long stemed
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sadie Kee
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 11
    Address
    Altnapaste, Co. Donegal