School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Caiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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- (continued from previous page)9. The biggest war that ever was, someone came safe out of it.
10. How-ever near a person's coat is to him his shirt is nearer.
11. Leave that as it is and leave Dublin where it is.
12. Where women are there's always talk.
13. An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron.
14. The man that works least talks most.
15. Don't be too swift to speak or too slow to learn.
16. A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures in a doctor's book.
17. A tinkers wife and a tailors wife are two that can never agree.
18. The beginning of a shower is a mist and the end of a battle is a strife.
19. The nearer to the bone the sweeter.
20. Marry a mountain woman and you'll marry the mountain.
21. The beginning of health is sleep.
22. Every one has his own story.
23. Countries are not as numerous as the customs.
24. The world wouldn't make a race-horse of an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tony Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mr J.J. Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann
