School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)horse your own horse would die.
(81) If you are going any place it is not right to turn back.
(82) If you are going to milk a cow when she is after calving you should put silver in the bucket.
(83) It is not right to hit an animal with a broom or a boortree bush.
(84) When there is a bee in the house you are going to get a letter.
(85) If you are looking at the ground when the cuckoo is singing you are going to die.
(86) If you are looking at a house when the cuckoo is singing you a going to get married before that year is out to some person out of that house.
