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School: Kilcoskan, The Ward

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0788, Page 60

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    Insects
    There are many insects which crawl around my district. Some of them are earwigs: long reddy insects, Ants: red insects; flies, horse-flies which follow horses and bite them. Clocks: black insects. Dar Daoils, hover-bee, ladybirds which hovers over flowers. Midges: come out at night. Bees, wasps, bats, spiders, hairy maggots or Gods Horses as we call them. There are stories told about them. If you
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