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School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)

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Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
M. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 196

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  1. Composition - Signs of Rain

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ethel Beattie
    Gender
    Female

  2. Signs of Rain

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    1 When the swallows fly low
    2 When the rooks fly low
    3 When the guinea hen shouts
    4 "Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry
    The distant hills are barking nigh,
    How restless are the snorting swine
    The busy fly disturb the kine
    The soot falls down, the spaniel sleeps
    The spider to her cobweb creeps,
    Press on the hearth with velvet paws, sits wiping her whiskered jaws"
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