School: Kilberry, Athy (roll number 13165)
- Location:
- Kilberry, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Sara Rowan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)33. "Don't rob Peter to pay Paul".
34. "A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one finds out the corners."
35. "Two wrongs never make a right."
36. "Live horse and you'll get grass."
37. "What the eye does not see, the heart does not feel."
38. "A dead cock never crew."
39. "Win gold and wear it."
40. "The old dog for the hard road."
41. "All before me like a man pushing a bog-barrow."
42. "Altogether like Brown's cows, when he had but the one."
43. AS happy as a lamb with two mothers.
44. "Hang or draw like the collier's horse."
45. "Fair and easy go far in the day."
46. "The more haste the less speed."
47. "If you don't sow, you won't reap."
48. "Look before you leap."
49. "You need not look for wool in a goat's house.
50. "Money makes the mare go."
51. "You'd lose the sheep for the ha'p worth of tar."
52. "Give a dog a bad name and hang him."(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Sara Rowan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
