School: Cluain le Fán (roll number 12817)
- Location:
- Cloonliffen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Callaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 274
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- Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
Weep, and you weep alone.
Feast, and the halls are crowded.
Fast, and the world goes by.
A bird in your hand is worth two in a bush.
Socur and easy goes far in the day.
You will never miss the water until the well runs dry.
It is better to live in hope than die in despair.
Many a man lost his sheep for the sake of a pennarth of tar.
There was a priest one time who was going to give up his religion, because a friend of his was hanged for murder. The priest knew he was innocent of the murder. One day the priest stood on a bridge looking at the water, and he saw a man in the water. A man stood beside the priest just then and he said "do you see that man in the river well that is the man your friend was hanged for. You should know that the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Cameron
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cuslough Demesne, Co. Mayo
