School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 444
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- (continued from previous page)glove. As old as the hills. As supple as a two year old. As sour as vinegar. As bitter as gall.
As blue as a bluebag. As red as a rose. As dead as a door nail. As deaf as a beetle. As comfortable as a bug in a rug. As poor as a church mouse. As weak as water. As brittle as glass. As cold as charity. As mad as a hatter. As mad as a March hare.
- (continued from previous page)146 Old turf, or old hay, is old gold.
147 Youth and a new reaping hook
148 The more hurry the less speed.
149 If and a knife would cut a loaf.
150 Very near it never does it.
151 An inch in the butt is worth three in the top(said when meadow is not being mown closely or bare enough)
152 He only wanted the wind of the wood.
153 "God made man: man made money. God made the bees, and the bees made honey. God made Satan; Satan made sin; God made hell and put him in"
154 Many men, many minds.
155 The eight of a stack never killed a mouse.
156 Live; and let live.
157 Live as long as you can and die when you cannot help it.
158 Live horse and you'll get grass
