School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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- (continued from previous page)On Bartholomew's Day (24th August) take the honey away.
If a cool August follows a hot July, it betokens a hard winter;
a warm dry August betokens a snowy winter.SeptemberSeptember blow soft,
Till fruit be in loft.On Saint Matthew's Day (21st September shut up the bee.
Never eat a blackberry after Michaelmas Day, for the devil spits on them.
(The meaning, of course, is that blackberries are not good to eat late.
OctoberIf the hare wears a thick coat in October, lay in a good store of fuel. October has always twenty one fine days.
Many hips and haws
Many frosts and snaws.
If foxes bark much in October
they are calling up a great fall of snow.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Molly Fortune
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynaslaney, Co. Wexford