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School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)

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Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 179

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    it with mud and she lines it with hay. She lays six eggs and the colour of them is white. The robin builds her nest in a bank. She builds it with moss and she lines it with hair.
    The weather can be judged in our district by certain birds. When the swallows fly low it is a sign of rain. Their food is flies and when there is rain coming the flies always fly low. For the same reason swallows fly high in fine weather. It is a sign of rain when the curlew is heard calling. It is a sign of a storm when the seagulls come inland. When the wild geese come from the north it is the sign of snow
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