School: Urcher
- Location:
- Urcher, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Martha Allister
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)it is always best to keep quiet until you get it out of it.
Live horse and you will get grass.
Waste not want not.
Mind the shop and the shop will mind you.
Time will tell, and frost will dry the "praties".
You can't take breeches of a highland man.
Feathering your own nest.
Once bitten twice shy.
One good turn deserves another.
As you rear your pup you have your dog.
You don't know what is in the pot till the lid is lifted.
Short accounts make long friends.
God fits the back for the burden.
It is wonderful the works of a wheel barrow.
People with glass heads should not be throwing stones. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
The early bird gets the early worm.
But - the worm is caught for it's(continues on next page)
