The gale scouring the exposed surface of the mountain had swept the snow surface into a wind-board crust.

A lambe will fall to the grownde, or to eatinge of grasse, when it is aboute a moneth or five weekes olde; yett if it have its fulth of milke, it will forbeare the longer; and the lambes that forbeare grasse the longest, prove for the most parte, the straightest, and best quartered; and these usually that fall to grasse over soone, proove short runtish sheepe, and are of the shepheardes callede dumplinges, or grasse belly’de lambes.

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c.1940 Diarmuid O Murcu, Irish made easy (Eirish); a self instructor for the adult