School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   morrow what you can do today. There was never a wood so green hadn't the burning of itself of rotten sticks(refers to pride of family). The pitcher may often go to the well and get broken at last. There is many a slip'twist the cup and the lip. Make hay while the sun shines. Distant hills look greenest. Connaught wear long horns. Still water lies deep. The mill never grind again with water that has passed.

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2. Festival Customs

   

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   Saint John's feast is always observed by lighting bonfires on some elevated place where it can be seen for a long distance. In this part of the country is not observed at all.but in Offaly and other parts the sky is lit up by bonfires on Saint John's Eve.

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