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School: Scoil na mBráthar, Tráighlí

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Tralee, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
An Br. Breathnach
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    1. Too many cooks spoil the soup
    2. Rolling stones gather no moss
    3. Spare the rod and spoil the child
    4. There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
    5. Faraway hills look green
    6. It's a long road that hasn't a turning
    7. All is not gold that glitters
    8. The day of the wind is not the day of the scallop
    9. There is no fireside like your own fireside
    10. As Long as the pitcher is going to the well it's bound to be broken
    11. Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat
    12. There is no disease that can't be cured if taken in time
    13. You can't put an old head on young shoulders
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tralee, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs R. O' Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    25
    Address
    Basin View, Co. Kerry