School: Nicker (C.), Pallas Green (roll number 14232)
- Location:
- Nicker, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Miss Annie Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0518, Page 243
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- 1. It is better to be born lucky than rich
2. Look twice before you leap.
3. Honesty is the best policy.
4. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
5. Never sell the old for the new.
6. A new broom sweeps clean but an old one scratches better.
7. There are many ways of choking besides choking with butter
8. Never take the book by the cover.
9. Two heads are better than one.
10. Shy but willing like a donkey eating thistles
11. The earliest bird catches the worm.
12. An empty house is better than a bad tenant.
13. Never count your chickens until they are hatched.
14. Make hay while the sun shines.
15. When the cat is out the mouse can dance.
16. A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garrison, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs O' Neill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Garrison, Co. Limerick
