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Old 26-09-2014, 20:46   #12
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: School items

Margaret, those would be Cowrie Shells.
I remember them too. We used to use them as money in the toy grocers shop we had at school.......yes, our teacher counted them out and counted them back too.
I can remember one little girl called Violet swallowing one...what an ingenious way to get one home
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