School: Malahide (B.)
- Location:
- Malahide, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ó Haodha
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- There are great number of sayings about the weather. When hens pick themselves and get under the hedges it is a sign of coming rain. "Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, the distant hills are looking nigh, hark how the chairs and tables crack, old Betty's joints are on the rack, then I know where there will be rain tomorrow". When the swallows are flying low it is a sign of coming rain. Wild geese fly towards the south forecasting either(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Thornton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- The Hill, Co. Dublin
