School: Naomh Ruadhan, Gallach (roll number 1828)
- Location:
- Gallagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: D. Ó Neachtain
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- The Signs of Rain
The general signs of rain which everybody know are dull black clouds which sometimes form one solid mass and maybe turn a dark blue colour with a strip of white at the bottom. Those signs are not very harmful and hardly ever results in a full wet day. A haziness in the air which shades the suns light and makes the orb appear whitish or ill-defined or at night if the moon and the stars grow dim and a ring incircles the former rain will follow. If the suns ray appears like Moses horns or shorn of its rays or goes down in a bank of clouds on the horizon rain is to be expected. If the moon looks pale or dim or is surrounded by a ring or by white clouds mixed with small patches the latter called "cow track". Then we are certain to get rain
- Cures
Cure for a Sty on the Eye
When a person has a sty he should go to a gooseberry bush and take a thorn from it and keep it pointed before the sty for nine days in succession. Then the sty will be cured.
Cure for Whooping Cough
When a person has whooping cough he should go out and the first man he should see riding a(continues on next page)
