School: Fedamore (B.) (roll number 14068)
- Location:
- Fedamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Martin Moloney
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- (continued from previous page)(22) As cross as a bag of cats.(23) As Cross as a briar.(24) Too many cooks spoil the breath.(25) Don't flog a horse when he's dead.(26) The Longest way round is the shortest way back.(27) Don't use a [?] when you have a brush.(28) He is like a in the wind(29) Birds of a feather flock together(30) Don't send a boy where you should send a man.(31) Don't throw out dirty water until the clean water is in(32) When the old cock crows the young cock learns.
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“Ther was a farmer there long ago and he was going to the market with a load of potatoes and he had no watch or clock so he got up at 12 O clock.”
Ther was a farmer there long ago and he was going to the market with a load of potatoes and he had no watch or clock so he got up at 12 O clock in the night and he thought it was four in the morning so he started in the morning away and he was about a quarter of an mile hour from his own house when a grand gate appeared to him he was near a forth and a man asked him for the load of potatoes and he said he never saw a house.(continues on next page)