School: Baile na mBreathnach (Welchtown) (roll number 9882)
- Location:
- Welchtown, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. A. Alcorn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1093, Page 073
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- (1) When you hear the 'big bumb clock'
(b) When the midges are biting.
(c) When the swallows are flying high.
(d) When there is a redness at the bottom of the sky & it goes up higher into the sky.
(e) Clear water.
(f) A Mist on the River
- (a) Dog eating grass
(b) When the swallows are flying low
(c)When the hills are black and looking near.
(d) Dogs sleepy.
(e) A Spring rising out of the ground
(f) Stones getting damp.
(g) "Puss on the hearth with velvet paws
Wiping her whisker jaws."
(h) The dust rising off the road.
(i) A rainbow in the morning.
(j) The wind blowing from the East
(K) Cat washing its face.
(l) A Mist on the Mountains
(m) When the crickets are flying
