School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 284
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- A man without learning and wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a dirty pig's nose.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Late to bed and late to rise makes a man beg before he dies.
He could argue the black crow white.
He is as black as a raven.
He is as old as a bog.
He is as contrary as the hind leg of a goat.
The last man must bar the door.
He is as grey as a badger.
You'ld steal the cross of an ass.
You couldn't see a hole in a step ladder.
It is as dark as dungeons.
He could drink Loch Erin dry.
He is as straight as a pole.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Reilly
- Gender
- Female
