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School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)

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Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 124

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  1. Local Sayings

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    Local Sayings.
    Send a goose round the world and it will come back a goose.
    There is no fire side like your own fire side.
    Sit on your heels till the stool is footed.
    The day of the wind is not the day of scollop.
    And nod is enough for a blind horse.
    Many hands make light work.
    Far away cows have long hors.
    Our cat has a long tail.
    "Rightly" the way Feadlaighe broke the shaft.
    A cock can crow in its own dung hill.
    It is dangerous to move old furniture. (it is said about marrying an old girl).
    How are you doing? I am doing everybody and everybody is doing me.
    There was a time when pigs were swine and turkeys chewed tobacco and birds built their nests in old men's beards.
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    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
    Bernard Mac Kenna
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynasell East, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Joe Mac Kenna
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Derrynasell East, Co. Monaghan