School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Baile Shláine, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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- My brother took much delight in making models. When he was nine he invented a model namely a creeping spool. He cut a piece of candle, then he got a spool and a piece of tube. He put the tube through the spool and candle, at each end of the tube he put a match which he twisted and wound the tube till it pushes the spool. It will creep over a knife like a toy tank.
He took much delight also in making slings and cata-pults. He made these from a piece of forked thorn and ash wood and a piece of a motor tube. At the tops of the wood he tied the rubber, at the ends of which he put a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jane Morgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pighill, Co. na Mí