School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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- (continued from previous page)I liked it, going home & shaving it because I couldn't find it. (A thron)
- Sky:- 1. When "Dublin glow" is up in morning sign of rain.
2. Sun sets red denotes fine weather.
3. Moon:- New moon sharp and on its back bad weather. Circle round moon bad weather - farther circle from moon the nearer rain.
4. Clouds When clouds are high up in the sky denote fine weather. When low denote bad meather. When it is dark at the "butt of the wind" bad weather is expected. When the clouds are like goats hair bad weather.
5. Rainbow "A rainbow in the mroning is a shepherd's warning, a rainbow at night is a sailor's delight.
The Wind:-
The south-west wind bring most rain. The north wind bring fine weather in Summer and snow in Winter. The east wind in Summer brings good weather, in Winter black frost. The east wind turns the wool on the sheep's back black.
Birds:-
"Hear the cuckoo on a bare thorn sell your horse and save your corn.(continues on next page)
