School: Malahide (B.)
- Location:
- Malahide, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ó Haodha
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- There are a great number of home-made toys. I am going to describe some of them. My father made a toy-pig from a lemon. He put two heads of matches to make the eyes and four matches to make his legs and one match for his tail.
There is a water-weed by which musical instruments can be made. There is no centre in these weeds. You can make a fife from them by boring one(continues on next page)- Collector
- Christopher Langan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Dublin