School: Scrabagh (roll number 11202)
- Location:
- Scrabbagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs Rose Ffrench
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- (continued from previous page)"It is difficult to put a wise head on young shoulders."
"A sloe year is a low year, a haw year is a braw year."
"An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron."
"The world wouldn't make a race-horse of an ass."
"He is a poor priest who has a clerk."
"Where women are, there is talk."
"Better late that never."
"The windy day isnt the day for the scallops."
"Its a long road that hasn't a turn."
"Hills are green far away."
"A stitch in time saves nine."
"A good beginning is half the work."
"Blood is thicker than water."
"The east wind is neither good for man nor beast."
"A blind man is a bad judge of colours."
"Fine feathers make fine birds."
"You cannot serve two masters."
"Well you may wear and soon you may tear."
"It takes a rogue to make a rogue."(continues on next page)- Collector
- School children