School: Drumcormack (roll number 13201)

Location:
Drumcormick, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Nora Healy
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    27 Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
    28 It's easier to fall than to rise.
    29 The help of God is nearer than the door.
    30 The thing that is nearest the heart is nearest the mouth.
    31 The world would not make a race horse of an ass.
    32 He who would strike my dog would strike myself.
    33 He would hear the grass growing.
    34 The ditches have ears.
    35 It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
    36 Praise the ford as you find it.
    37 What the pooka writes let him read it himself.
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