School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 204
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- 1. The cuckoo comes in April,
She sings her song in May,
In the middle of June
She changes her tune
Then she flies away.
2. If the cuckoo sits on a bare thorn,
You may sell your cow and buy corn.
3. A wet May and a dry June
Makes the farmer whistle a merry tune.
4. If it rains and sun shining
children say - Sunshine shower
Wont last a half-an-hour.5. If a child comes late for school they say -
The diller, the doller
The twelve o'clock scholar. 6. If they see some magpies they say
One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a wedding
And four for a boy.7. If one threatens to tell on another he says -(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
