School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 250
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- A sloe year is a low year a haw year is a braw year.
Many a baron wore a bawneen.
There is no use going to a goat's house to look for wool.
Feathers don't grow on a frog.
Ther eis a slippery stone at every gentleman's hall door.
Saturday's washing for Sunday's dashing.
Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.
Don't cut long thongs out of another man's leather.
Don't outstay your welcome like a neighbour's goat.
Dull tins lazy housekeeper
By-road to Mass and high road with a funeral.
Out of every peck give a pigeen (full of little wooden vessel) to the Lord.
Childhood shows the man as mornning shows the day.
- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
