School: Brúgh Ríogh (B.) (roll number 8572)
- Location:
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Haragáin
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1 If you open an umbrella in a house, you'll never again grow
2 If you see a lost horse-shoe on the road pick it up and keep, because if you don't you pass by your luck.
3 When an ass brays a tinker is dead and a baby born.
4 When a start falls, there is a soul going to heaven.
5 If a number of people are shaking hands and if the hands cross, it means the marriage of someone present.
6 To spill salt betokens a row
7 If a knife falls you'll have a visitor, and if a fork falls you can be sure of a visit from a gentleman.
8 If your nose is itchy there is someone talking badly about you.
9 If your right hand is itchy you are going to get a shakehands, and if your left one is itchy you are going to get money.
10 Do not wash in the same water as someone else, or a row will follow, unless you spit into the water.
11 If a dog or a hen comes into the house with a sop of hay trailing after them you(continues on next page)
