School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 248
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- Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman in a house and they were married. They lived happily for about a year and they started to fight. The man always used to be beating his wife Nora. She told him it was a disease and to go to the doctor in Blackrock and he could cure it by electricity and he went. The doctor told him it was a disease also and at the end of eleven months he would get as small and as weak as a rat. At the end of the eleven months he got as small as a rat and the doctor told him he would be in a dangerous place if the cat was inside. One morning the wife called him to his breakfast and said "Get up to your breakfast" and he said "Yes Nora but put out the cat. The wife had no more trouble with him any more.
- Collector
- Brigid Mac Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Why is a leaking barrel so like a coward?
Because it always runs.
What is it you have and I haven't and I make more use of it than you do?
Name. - Collector
- Brigid Mac Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- You can't make a race-horse out of a donkey.
You can't knock blood out of a stone.
There can't be smoke without fire.
A stitch in time saves nine.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Brigid Mac Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
