School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 072
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- 1. A stitch in time saves nine.
2. Never leave for to-morrow what you can do to-day.
3. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you will have corn to sell and keep.
4. The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the foot-path.
5. It is not the big stones along that build the castle.
6. The man on the grass is a good rider.
7. Every hound is a pup before it hunts.
8. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
9. Grasp at too much and loose all.
10. A new brush sweeps clean.
11. Look before you leap.
12. There's always a slippy stone at a gentle-man's hall door.
13. Its bad wind that doesn't favour somebody.
14. Strike the iron while its red.
15. Make hay while the sun shines.
16. A constant drop wears a stone.
17. Many hands make light work.
18. For the want of a nail the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost. All for the want of a horse-shoe nail.
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- Gerty Currid
- Gender
- Female
