School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Dillon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 233
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- (1) "A wet and windy May,
Fills the haggard with oats and hay."
(2) "All the months of the year curse a fair February.
(3) "Evening red and morning grey sets the traveller on his way.
Evening grey and morning red brings down rain upon his head."
(4) "A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning,
A rainbow in the night is the shepherd's delight."
(5) March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.
(6) The 12 months of the year are like 12 days of Christmas.
(7) "Cap on Benbo increasing is the sign of rain.
"Cap on Benbo decreasing is the sign of dryness."
(8) "A mackerel sky not twenty four hours dry."
(9) When there is a mist on(continues on next page)
