School: Skryne (roll number 1210)
- Location:
- Skreen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)Eat while there is a loaf in the basket.
Night brings home the crows.
Too lazy to work and too proud to beg.
He gave geanncanan's leap.
There's no green in the white of your eyes.
She has a quills poultice in that boy.
Don't break the fauls back.
A shut mouth catches no flies.
Tell your troubles to the four corners of the house.
Slow and patient will brig a snail to America.
An empty sack cannot stand.
Never buy a pig in a poke.
Poverty is no crime.
He wants a hair of the dog that bit him.
When your hand is in a dog's ,pitj take it out gently.
Hunger breaks through a stone wall.
He won't sit the Boyne on fire.Mairead O'Brien
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