School: Rathfeigh (roll number 10281)
- Location:
- Rathfeigh, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs Rose Madden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 276
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- (continued from previous page)(180) Be sure of hay til, the end of May.
(181) June if sunny brings harvest early.
(182) A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon.
(183) Midsummer rain spoils hay and grain.
(184) Bury the hatchet.
(185) He who bathes in May
Will sonn be laid in clay;
He who bathes in June
Will sing a merry tune;
He who bathes in July
Will dance like a fly.
(186) Swithin's Day (15th July, if thou dost rain,
Forty days it will remain,
Swithin's Day, if thou be fair,
Forty days 'twill rain nae mair.
(187) All the tears St. Swithin can cry,
Saint Bartholomew's mantle wipes dry.
(188) On Bartholomew's Day (24th August) take the honey away.(continues on next page)
