School: Powerscourt
- Location:
- Powerscourt Demesne, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: P. Steere
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0913, Page 087
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- Stormy
1. Blue flame in fire
2. Wild geese clustering together
3. Moons Ring
4. Cattle seek shelter
5. Crickets chirping
6. Fish hide under bank
7. Wire Ring round moon
8. "If a hare wears a thick coat in October lay on a good store of food"
9. Crickets chirping fiercely
10. Cat scratching wood
11. Frog coming into house
Rain
12. When Sugar Loaf Mt wears a hood
13. The Dargle river is near a flood
14. When earwigs are crawling peacefully
15. Three nights white frost
16. River water looking dull
17. Woodcocks crowing overhead
18. Falling soot
19. "Midges" very active
20. If white frost disappears quickly in AM rain is very near
21. Stones weeping on a fine day(continues on next page)
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