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School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

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Cluain Tuaiscirt, Co. na Gaillimhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 08_020

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    A Day hay-making
    August is the best month for hay-making and the people like to get fine weather because hay cannot be saved in wet weather. This year the farmers only got a fine day now and again and I remember one special day in the middle of August that I was hay making. That day the hay was cut down by a mowing machine and that night everyone in the house was praying for the next day to be fine and when I got up the next morning the day promised to be glorious and warm. After my breakfast I went out to the hay field and myself
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brighid Ní Bleíthin
    Gender
    Female