School: Garrdha (roll number 12721)
- Location:
- Garra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó hAnnracháin
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- Nearly everyone is able to make some kind of play instrument.
You can make a pop-gun out of a piece of a stick and a piece of a feather from a goose's wing.
It is called a pop-gun because the shots are made from little pieces of potatoes.
You can make a bow-and-arrow from two pieces of sally switches and a piece of string.
It wouldn't kill anything but you could fire at a cock shot with it. It fires about ten yards.
A catter-pulse is an implement for firing small stones. It is made of two strapes of rubber out of a motor tube, a small piece of leather, and a "gablóg" (a forked piece of timber).
It can kill a bird if you have a good shot with it.
The snare is made with snare wire. It is set on a run which the rabbit runs on. When the rabbit comes along he puts his head into it and he gets choked. A trap is set at the mouth of the burrow and when he puts his(continues on next page)
