School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)

Location:
Tonlegee, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0605, Page 098

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0605, Page 098

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  1. 1. A bird in your hand is as good as two in a bush.
    2. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
    3. Time or tide waits for no man.
    4. After a storm comes a calm.
    5. Green are the hills that are far away.
    6. Better late than ever.
    7. Saying and doing are two things.
    8. Listen to the bubbling of the waters and you will find fish.
    9. Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat.
    10. No place is like home.
    11. It is for his own good that cat purrs.
    12. Keep a thing for seven years and you will find use of it.
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