School: Tobar (B.)
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- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ó Maoltuile
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- The trap for birds is made of elder branches. Put two sticks sown in the ground. Get a forky stick put it in the middle. Make the crib with sticks like a box. Have them close together. Put food under the crib and have one side resting on the forked stick. Have a long twine out of the forked stick. Put food under the crib. When the birds go in, pull the twine. The crib falls down on them.
- Long ago the people were very fond of the spinning tops. They never had a whipping top. They spun the top on a floor. They go a plate or(continues on next page)