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School: Richmond (roll number 14400)

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Richmond, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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    Weather Lore
    1st February 1938
    When the frog is of a golden colour
    it is the sign of good weather .When the frog is of a black colour it is the sign of rain.
    When the crickets are singing it is the sign of bad weather.A rainbow is a sigb of bad weather.Whhen there are a lot of flies flying about it is the sign of bad weather .
    The swallows fly low for bad weather and high for good weather .
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sadie Caden
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr John Caden
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 50
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo