School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 446
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- (continued from previous page)before they are hatched.Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, and wealthy, and wise.The early bird catches the worm first.The cock is crowing,
The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter,
The green fields sleep in the sun,
The oldest and youngest,
Are at work with the strongest,
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising,
There are forty feeding like one.It is a good man that is able to mind his own business.A bad workman quarrels with his tools.It is too late to sharpen your sword when the drum beats for battle.The long round to the work and the short cut to the food.A woman told me that a woman told her.Hunger is a good sauce.Time and patience would bring a snail to Jerusalem.(continues on next page)
