School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0177, Page 194
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- (continued from previous page)A bad beginning often makes a good ending.
- While the sun shines make the hay. All proverbs are not said without some meaning attached to them. This is a story which I heard about a man named P. J. O'Donnell of Ballinacarrow which gives exact meaning to the Proverb.
The story is as follows. O'Donnell who was a very lazy man would not get up in the morning until it would be nine or ten oclock. It was almost the middle of Autumn and he had a large field of ripe corn in stooks near the house, the weather was not very permitting up to that and he could not get it(continues on next page) - Collector
- Christina Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbeg East, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Donagh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbeg East, Co. Sligo
