School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 329
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- Signs of Rain1) To hear the curlews and Filibins cry loudly.2) To see the swallows flying low in the Summer time3) When the cat sits with her back to the fire.4) When the snails crawl across the road at night.5) When the midges bite on a Summer's evening.6) When the ducks quack and the peacocks cry.
7) "When the cock goes crowing to bed. He wakes up in the morning with a watery head"
8) When the frogs come out on the land and are dark in colour.
9) When the sheep go up the hill.10) When the crickets sing at night.
11) When the smoke blows down to the ground from the chimney.
12) When there is a halo on the moon.
13) When the curlews whistle in the bog and the crane flies northwards.
14) When the crows twist and turn in the air.(continues on next page)
