School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 223
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- (continued from previous page)the pellets which went off with a loud plop.
A similar pop-gun on a larger scale was made by scooping like pulp out of a length of:"boor-tree" or elder. The bullet for this was paper chewed into pulp.
In most houses long ago there was a quilting frame. A length of home open flannel was dyed the required colour an old blanket the same size was put to the back of it and tacked together all round. Two long laths were procured and joined by two shorter ones. The quilt was hacked firmly to this frame and the women of the house worked a certain pattern on it in wool putting their stitches through so that both pieces were caught. Cages for trapping blackbirds or thrushes were made in this way. A frame was formed by 4 pieces of wood tied at the corners a "sally" rod was looped over the corners and tied together overhead. Thinner pieces were then put into those loops getting shorter and shorter. The top was reached. A tongue was put in and a forked pick nested on this tongue with the forked side holding up the cage. Wood was put inside and as soon as a bird(continues on next page)
- Collector
- D. Boyd
