School: Garvagh
- Location:
- Drutamon, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Burrows
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 318
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- I The butter ran through the stirabout.
II An opening never comes to you but you must go to it.
III It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup.
IV. If you put a beggar on horseback he will out - ride the devil.
V. The way you rear your pup you will have your dog.
VI. He who slings mud is losing ground
VII. A heifer's heifer fills the byre.
VIII. Winter thunder summer hunger.
IX. A sloe year a woe year.
X. A haw year a braw year.
XI. Good luck to the house the swallow builds in.
XII. A small bolt with a large screw.
XIII It was not of the stones he licked it.
XIV. A borrowed horse has hard hooves.
XV. Saturday's flit is a short sit.
XVI. If you lie down with dogs you will rise with fleas.
XVII. Champ to champ would choke you
- Collector
- Ena Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc na Seamar, Co. an Chabháin
