School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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- 1. Fair without and fowl within
2. All to one side like the town of Ballywary
3. All together like Brown's cows
4. The dog for the road and the pup for the boreen
5. Show me your pal and I'll tell you (?) you are
6. Where's the big snow that was long ago
7. One good turn deserves another
8. It's as dark as Pollaphoncha
9. Theres nothing bad but could be worse
10. Never judge the book by the cover
11. To himself (?) it may be told
12. It's hard to get a hill like Neiphin
13. Put silk on a cat and he's a cat all the time
14. An old cat never burned himself
15. Leave the country or be in the fashion
16. Fine feathers make fine birds
17. Have it yourself or be without it
18. Fair exchange is no robbery
19. Counting the chicken's before there hatched
20. You cannot have your loaf and eat it
21. Drink when youre sick maks you well and drink makes you sick when youre well
22. You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
23. It's a long road that has no turn(continues on next page)
