School: Ardnagrath (roll number 5963)
- Location:
- Ard na gCreach, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 397
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- (continued from previous page)94 A spoonful of honey catches more flies than a pint of vinegar.
95 Make hay while the sun shines.
96 Looking for a needle in a bundle of straw.
97 Rome was not built in a day.
98 Think twice before you speak once.
99 Old friends are best friends.
100 There is as good a fish in the sea as ever was caught.
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“There was a man and his wife in this district who were always fighting and argueing...”
I There was a man and his wife in this district who were always fighting and argueing. The man's name was James, and after a while James went away to a foreign country. When James was gone his wife said to the neighbours "as bad as James was it is worse to be without him." Ever since when a person parts with something that he is sorry for parting with afterwards people say "you are like the old woman that said "as bad as James was it is worse to be without him. - Collector
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“There was a tailor in this district who had very little courage...”
II There was a tailor in this district(continues on next page)