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School: Balrath (roll number 9770)

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Balrath, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Bean Uí Oirghiall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 098

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 098

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  1. Homemade Toys - Hay Ropes (continued)

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    you pull it the stone will fly away.
    See saw. A plank is left across a big stick or ditch and a child gets on each end and weighs one another up and down saying.
    Sea saw Margery Daw
    Sold her bed and lay on straw
    Was not she the dirty clot
    To sell her bed and lie in dirt.
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  2. Homemade Toys - Rag Dolls

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    Rag dolls are often made. Plenty of rags are got and bags of different sizes are sewed. One big bag is made for the body and a small bag for the head two long thin ones for the arms and two for the legs. They are all filled with rags
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Bannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stamullin, Co. Meath