School: Cill Átha (roll number 9298)
- Location:
- Killagh More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Pender
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0045, Page 0166
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- (continued from previous page)8. It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
9. You are as busy as a bee in [?] bottle.
10. A Shut mouth catches no flies.
11. Spare the rod and spoil the child
12. Early to bed and early to rise, makes man healthy, wealthy and wise.
13. The cuckoo in the bare thorn, the farmers will want for hay and corn.
14. A stitch in time saves mine.
15. Better late than never.
16. It's never too late spend.
17. You are slow as Easter.
18. Everyone tries to feather their own nest.
19. Everyone drawing water to their own mil
20. He is coming and so is Christmas.
21. If a person did not see another person for a long time that person would say it is a cure for eyes to see you.
22. If a person saw a lamb and if it were the first lamb he saw that year, he would say,
23. It is better to be born lucky than rich.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Curley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymabilla, Co. Galway
