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School: Ballykelly

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Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Uadain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 281

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  1. Homemade Toys (continued)

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    water till the twist is gone out of the rubber.
    Get a bough off a tree and cut five pieces of the same thickness four inches long and three quarters of an inch thick. Cut three more pieces about two inches thick and six inches long. Make a ring in the ground and make it into quarters put one of the little sticks in middle of the ring and put the other four sticks at each corner of the ring. Draw a line about five yards away from the ring and take the three long sticks and throw them at the little ones and knock them out of the ring and play with them.
    Make an aeroplane with ply-wood make three wooden wheels for the aeroplane.
    Put an iron bar in such a way that it came out in the front of the aeroplane and bend
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James O' Neill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Whitechurch, Co. Wexford