School: Uillineach (roll number 6584)
- Location:
- Ullinagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Sibéal Pollock
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0941, Page 149
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- (continued from previous page)the farmer sing a merry tune.
26 When the kettle makes a droning
noise there is going to be a funeral
27 Never sell your hen on a rainy day
28 A peek of March dust is worth a king's ransom
29 March sun makes clothes white and maidens dun.
30 Where there is much smoke there must be some fire.
31 Don't crow till you're out of the woods
32 Curses, like chickens, roost at home.
33 Patch beside patch is neighbourly
But patch upon patch is beggarly.
34 Better a poor horse in an empty stall
Better half a loaf than none at all
35 "If" is as big as a mountain.
If "ifs" and ands could bottom cans
We'd have no need for tinkers.
36 We never miss the water till the well goes dry.(continues on next page)
