School: Áth Dúna, Gleann an Phréacháin, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12542)

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1. Weather-Lore

   

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   When rats remain during the late spring, in their usual winter quarters, it is a sign of a wet summer. (Denis Dinan, Carrig, Glenville)
   NOTE. Rats have remained n farm-yards, and other buildings far from rivers, in 1936. This proves above to be correct.

   

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2. The Two Travellers

   

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   I All over the world the traveller said. In my peregrinations I've been And there's nothing remarkable living 'r dead That those eyes of mine have not seen. From the land of the ape to the Maramazet To the land of Feragheen. Said the other "I lay you an even bet You were never in lower TOUREEN. II I have hunted the woods near Sar -angepata[?] I have sailed the Polar Seas. I've fished for a week the half of Siam I lunched in the Kersenees I have lived in the valley of fair Kashmeer Under the Hermitage ridge. The other impatiently said all here Were you ever at PATTERSON'S BRIDGE.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Tim Forde

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Bertie Flynn

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Labourer