School: Mercy Convent, Belturbet
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)Danish camp and warmed them in time.
Afterwards boys went round the country on the day after Christmas.
St. Stephen's Day asking for money to bury the Wren. Sometimes they sing songs, and one of these is -
"The Wren, the wren, the King of all birds,
On St. Stephen's Day he was lost in the furze.
So up with the kettle and down with the pan.
A penny or twopence to bury the Wren."Some birds tell what the weather is going to be like. The Crows alight on a hill when the weather is going to be good and alight in low lying land when the weather will be bad.
The Thrush and Blackbird are beautiful warblers and people like(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gertrude Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kildallan, Co. Cavan