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School: Doire / Derrew (roll number 14624)

Location:
Derrew, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Caitlín Bean Uí Maolalaidh
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    1. Don’t sell your hen in a wet day.
    2. Does who goes with the wicked they will share in their faith.
    3. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
    4. Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.
    5. They that will not sow in Spring will not reap in the harvest.
    6. A closed mouth catches no flys.
    7. Industry is the mother of invention.
    8. Don’t sell your hen in a wet day.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Gibbons
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mary Gibbons
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonee, Co. Mayo