School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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- (continued from previous page)only left a armchair to the other grandson. The other two used to call him armchair and asked him how did he like it.
One day the boy sat down on the armchair but it was very old and broke. But out rolled hundreds and thousands pounds. The other people never laughed at him again.
- 116. A fool and his money are soon parted.
117. Fools build castles for wise men to live in them.
118. Truth is stranger than fiction.
119. Plough deep while slugards sleep.
120. Make hay while the sun shines.
