School: Baile an Mhóta (roll number 16260)
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Beárnais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 062
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- It was usual in olden times for boys and girls to make their own toys to play with. For example girls made necklaces from flowers and clothes for dolls. Boys usually made catapults and shaped or cut wood into the shape of a gun.
Even yet little girls make those beautiful necklaces from daisies and weat them on May day and on other Summer festivals. They also make paper or flowere decorations for their homes.
Boys also are in the habit of making catapults even now. Those catapults are made from small wooden forks got from the trees and a piece or strip of rubber attached to each arm of fork. These catapults can shoot of fire a stone a great distance.
Boys make imitation guns also when playing such games as "cowboys and Indians" amongst themselves. They also make wooden hoops and oftentimes they hinder traffic and people when playing with them on the public road.(continues on next page)
