School: Ráth Mhaoláin (Robertson) (roll number 10374)
- Location:
- Rathmullan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Stiopháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1088, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)a green Xmas makes a fat church yard.
Lammas is come.
More haste the less speed, like the tailor and the long thread.
Don't sell your hen in a rainy day.
No flood in the burn, plenty of rats in the burn.
Whats bred in the bone is hard to get out of the flesh.
The brochan (brachan) came through the butter
Better to get a thrifty woman and put a sack on her, than get a lady with a fortune.
If you burn the candle at the both ends it will soon burn out.
You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
If you have too many irons in the fire some of them are sure to cool.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Patch beside patch is neighbourly, but patch above patch is beggarly.
When you see a man down at the heel there is something wrong.
When hunger comes in at the door, love goes out of the window.
Laugh hearty, cry soon.
An ounce of steel is better than a yard of(continues on next page)
