School: Lettercran (roll number 12049)
- Location:
- Lettercran, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Peadar S. Ó Duibhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 228
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- 1. “Friday’s mood holds what it has”—if Friday is good, good weather for the month; if Friday is bad, bad weather for the month.
2. “Saturday’s mood goes three times mad and Sunday’s mood goes twice as bad.”
3. “Slight my horse and buy my horse”.
4. “What’s good for the goose is not bad for the gander.”
5. “Ivy, ivy, I love thee,
To my boson I press thee,
The first young man that I do meet
Will be my future husband.”
6. “There always comes a dry hour on Saturday to dry the clergyman’s shirt.”
7. “You do not know what’s in the pot and the lid on it.”
8. Never sit on a stone or on cold grass in any month with an “r” in it.(continues on next page)
