School: Clara (Convent)
- Location:
- Clara, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Bernadette
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- (continued from previous page)but when she gets a Thrush off her nest she lays her egg in it.Little boys fear touching eggs in case, as they are told, their eyes would be plucked out. If a bird flies high it is a sure sign of fine weather, but if low bad weather may be expected.The Robin is supposed to have got its read breast from a drop of Our Lord's blood.
- The house that existed in former were of a far different type to the ones now. The walls were of stone and mud, the roofs of thatch and the chimney of wattles.The bed was generally in the corner of the ktichen. This bed was called a settle bed. The fire was always at the gable wall, on the hearth..
Some house had no chimneys, but(continues on next page)
