Homemade Toys

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twine in through the hole and turn the tin and it would buzz.
    Boys used to make aeroplanes out of timber. They used to cut out the timber and join it with nails and put small wheels under it, and it would run a bit around the floor when they would push it.
 Boys used to make cars. They got a box and nailed sticks on it. Then cut two round pieces of board and bore holes in the middle of them and put them under the box. And if they drew it , it would go. They used draw each other in them.
   Boys made tops of timber and make it round and drive a nail through the top down the middle so that it would come out in the other end and it would spin for them.
  Boys used to make teetotums. They used to get a reel and make it square with a knife and write certain letters on it with a pencil. And put a match down through the

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in the reel and it would spin.
  My mother used to make necklaces out of dog-briar bushes. She used to get a stem of hay and put a hole in teh berries with a needle and then put in the stem of hay.
  Get a potato with two eyes in it and wash it well and make the form of a nose and mouth on it. Then get a stick and drive it up through the potato and put a lot of rags in it in the  form of a body and then get rags and sew them up in the form of legs and arms. Then put on nice clothes on her.
  The way girls make daisy-chains is to get a lot of daisies and cut off the shanks, then get a long needle and thread and drive in the needle and thread through the daisies.
   Get a lot of corks and tie them together and then get rags and tie them all around the corks and get a hard piece of cloth and sew it around them. It would make a hard ball.