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   Signs of Wet Weather

   Sky

   When the sky goes down pale
   When there is a ring round the moon : the nearer the ring the nearer the storm.

   Chimney

   When the soot falls.
   When the smoke goes up straight out of the chimney

   
   Local Rhyme

   When Forth Mountain top, wears a cap
   Forth + Bargy beware of that.
   Loud quack the ducks the peacocks cry
   The distant hills are looking nigh
   And thro' the clear stream the fishes rise
   And nimbly catch the cautious flies
   The soot falls down the spaniels sleep
   And spiders from their cobwebs creep
   The sun last night went pale to bed
   The moon in halos hid her head.
   How restless are the snorting swine
   The busy flies disturb the kine
   Puss on the hearth with velvet paws
   Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws
   The frog has changed his yellow vest
   And in a russet coat is dressed.
   'T will surely rain I see with sorrow
   Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Peter Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   75

   Address

   Trinity Cross Roads, Co. Wexford