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   or girdle. Sometimes they amuse themselves by making Dolls and dressing them. They like serving and making doll's dresses.
   I have seen girls making butterflies cages with rushes. The boys fancy working with a penknife. They often get a spool and shape it with the penknife into a top so as they can spin it. They make guns out of elder branches and they can charge them with cotton wool They use a piece of pared stick to make a ramrod to go into the gun to fire the shot.
   Others boys plan to get a patent to catch birds. The best time for this work is in snow. It is easier to catch them at that because they are hungry and become tamer

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. toys (~1,598)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Billy Kincaid

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Seeharan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mrs T. Cochrane

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Greaghclogh, Co. Cavan