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School: Breac-chluain

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Brackloon South, Co. Mayo
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Liam Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 036

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    Never send a boy on a man's errand.
    Once when a bridegroom was sitting down to a wedding feast he stumbled over the leg of a chair. Then as he was tasting the tea he burned his tongue. After the meal was over, when he was asked what he liked best, at the table he said, "The roast duck was the thing I liked best."
    Then he was told to
    "Look before you leap,
    Taste before you sup,
    And choose a maiden before a duck."
    "When whiskey is in the sense is out.
    For both there isn't room.
    Leave whiskey our and then your snout
    Will keep its natural bloom."
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    A long churning makes bad butter.
    Time enough lost the ducks.
    Rising late you must gallop all day.
    Learning and manners are constant companions.
    Learn to live as you wish to die.
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    Topics
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Freely
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrynacong, Co. Mayo