School: Dún na Mainistreach (C.), Dúngarbhán (roll number 14100)
- Location:
- Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chriostóir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0646, Page 121
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“There's a frog in the kettle (said of a kettle that takes a long time to boil).”
There's a frog in the kettle (said of a kettle that takes a long time to boil)
Water bewitched and tea begrudged - weak tea.
Such a morning never had a mother - a wild and cold winter's morning
Buttermilk that would take a pearl off a piper's eye - sour buttermilk.
Let the late-comers kiss the hare's foot
She'd cost a haggard of sparrows (Haggard is a hay and straw yard)
I have it in my hand, where the piper had the jig.
Like a chip in porridge - neither good(continues on next page)