School: Cloncarneel
- Location:
- Cloncarneel, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 269
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- (continued from previous page)twelve.
The walls and floors of the house sweat.
When the leaves turn on their backs.
When soot falls from the chimney.
People feel their pains worse than usual.
If a person has a corn it generally pains him before rain.
The salt gets damp
The spiders creep from their cobwebs.
Bumble-bees fly about.
Beetles run across the floor.
The midges fly about, and are very troublesome to people.
Crickets creep on the walls.
When the cow licks her hoofs.
The frogs croak.
The ants go under stones.
Feathers fly around
Dust ruses and whirls abouts.
A hen picks her feathers.
When the pigeons eat the cabbage.
When crows alights on a post
When a cow licks snow.
To see a pigeon soaring in the sky.
Wild geese fly around.(continues on next page)
