School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 226
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- A bird in your hand is worth two in a bush.
What you have in your hand never cast it away.
Do not weep for what you never lost.
Better alone than in bad company.
Yo late to spare when all is spent.
Always keep peace or peace will keep you.
- Collector
- Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Twenty sheep upon a gap, twenty more on top of that, six and seven, twice eleven, three and two how much is that.
Three and two are five.
As I went up the hill of Isles I met nine women and nine wives, the nine wives had cats, and the nine cats had nine kittens. And between cats and kettens and women and wives how many went up the hill of Isles.
One person.
Cut and put on a table and still never eaten.
A pack of cards.
What goes round the house and sleeps on its head at night.
A brush.
What is deeper than the sea.
A tailor's thimble because it has no bottom in it(continues on next page)
