School: Aughaclay (roll number 13140)
- Location:
- Templemoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 121
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- 1) Many hands make light work.
2) it is hard to take "breeks" (trousers) of a highland man.
3) A narrow gathering makes a wide scattering.
4) There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
5) Gathering straws and scattering battles.
6) A constant drop wears a hole in the stone.
7) You never miss the water until the well runs dry.
8) Its not the hen that cackles the loudest that lays the biggest egg.
9) High wind comes to rain.
10) Always look before you leap.
11) The nearer the bone the sweeter the beef.
12) Its an ill wind that does not blow fair to somebody.
13) Its hard to get a robin out of a hawks nest.
14) The nearer the rock the sweeter the grass.
15) Plough deep and your soil will "seep" then you'll have coin to sell and keep.
16) If you have a goose you'll get a goose.
17) Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
18) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
19) The harder the frost the nearer the thaw.
- Collector
- Gretta Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Malin, Co. Donegal
