School: Cnapach (Crappagh) (roll number 7529)
- Location:
- Crappagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Horan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 324
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- Candlemas Day fair & clear
Brings two winters in one year.When playing cards they call "trumps" truff".
It's a long lane has no turning.
Long runs the fox but he's caught at last
There's many a slip twixt the cup & the lip.A crowl on a creepy looks nothing
(Crowl = a very small person).You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.Barley will grow in Egypt again.
(You'll be in a high place some time & I won't help you).A new broom sweeps clean but the old one knows the corners.
You never know the want of water till the well goes dry.
There's no use locking the stable door when the steed is stolen.
If the cap fits you can wear it.
Birds of a feather flock together.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
You're a "quare" hare to be caught in butter."Dip your potato in that for nine mornings."
(Said when card-playing if one of the players(continues on next page)
