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School: Creach na mBearna

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Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 086

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    "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"
    Don't speak evil words they have a nasty taste of you are made swallow them.
    "Don't let the sun set on your angar"
    "You don't know the want of water till the well runs dry. Nor the shelter of the bush till it is cut."
    A sober man can make as much use of a 9 inch plank as a drunken man can of a twenty foot road.
    "Don't send a bare footed man in search of shoes of you.
    "What is got badly goes badly"
    It is hard to stop the hole in a spendthrifts pocket.
    "Choose your wife in the early morning" hours
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Mary A. Mc Manus
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rover Lower, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Christie
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Arigna, Co. Roscommon