School: Dunbell
- Location:
- Dún Bile Beag, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Dhubhlaoich
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- Signs of the Weather
A morning red and evening grey
Sets the traveller on his way
But a morning grey and evening red
Brings down rain upon his head.When a donkey stands with his back to a ditch it is a sign of rain. A ring around the moon is a (of) sign of rain.When you see a flock of crows landed in a field there is going to be a storn a storm.When wild geese or wild ducks fly inland it is a sign of hard weather.When the crows fly high it is a sigh of fine weather.When you see the swallows in summer flying low it is a sign of wet weather.(continues on next page)