School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Ceallúrach Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 200
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- (continued from previous page)it, and they begin shoting at bees and flies
(The Bow-and-arrow)
They also set snares for rabbits and hares.
They get the wire in a shop, and make it in to a round ring, and a running noose, and get a piece of stick and peg it in the ground tied by a cord.
The Bow-and-arrow is nearly gone out of fashion now, and so are the rag dolls.
Long ago tricks used to be played on people coming home from playing cards to frighten them. Mr Long who is dead now scoped out a turnip, and put a candle lighting it, and put a man's cap on it, and stuck it on a piece of stick, and put a red jacket on it, and put it sitting in a bush, with a little wooden hammer(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glais na Muileann, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Informant
- Mrs J. Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Glais na Muileann, Co. Chill Mhantáin
