School: Carrowbeg (roll number 10754)
- Location:
- Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rachel Nic an Ridire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 487
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- (continued from previous page)flock together.
Gathering straws and loosing battles
Time will tell and frost will try the potatoes
Five horse and you will get oats
Teena one wash their lug with it more than me. I wouldn't feel as much more on the same spot.
A penny never reared you.
There is many a way of choking a dog for-by choking with butter
Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth and a pound wouldn't choke you.
The bad weather never died in the good weather's debt.
This is an old saying and a true saying "Man mind thyself, woman do though likewise"
A wise man always carries his coat.
Let bygones be bygones and join in the new.
That dog's dead. Better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
Many hands make light work
They are like our back wall they are up to the light of no great thing.
Die dog or eat the hatchet
Many a ship was lost at sea for want of tar and timber
Many a misty morning turns out a summer's day(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emma Jean Hutchinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal
