School: Caiseal Seanachain (roll number 15170)
- Location:
- Cashelshanaghan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Ghiolla Fhaolain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1086, Page 11
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- A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
Half of a loaf is better than no bread.
A Saturday’s flit is a short sit.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy, and wise.
An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.
There was once a deer who took sick and lay down in a place where there was plenty of grass. All the other deer came to visit it until they had eaten all the grass in the place so the deer died not of sickness but of hunger.
You may do harm even when you mean to be kind. There was once a boy watching sheep. One day he went out and called “Wolf wolf.” All the people came to see what was wrong but there was no wolf there at all. A second time the wolf came and the boy went out and called again but nobody came. You cannot believe a liar even when he tells the truth.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Nothing worth having is easily won.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Armour
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Loughnagin, Co. Donegal
