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School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)

Location:
Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Nic Sheáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 335

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    of it with feathers and lays four blue eggs.
    The crow builds her nest on top of a tree with sticks and lays five eggs.
    The pigeon builds her nest in a tree on which there is ivy growing, she just puts a few pieces of heather flat across the branches and lays two white eggs.
    The swallow makes its nest out of clay and lines the inside of it with feathers and lays five eggs.
    The cuckoo builds no nest but lays one egg in some other bird’s nest generally in a lark’s.
    People say that when the swallows fly low there will be rain and when the wild geese call there will be rain.
    It is said that the bird which follows the cuckoo is her maid.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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