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1. Old Proverbs (continued)

   

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   "The longest way round is the shortest way home."
   "The world was not made in a day."
   "The cat has nine lives."
   "Never bring in butter-cups into a house."
   "When going a journey it's not lucky to meet a red-haired person."
   "If a horse dies you will have seven years bad luck."
   "A penny wise and a pound foolish."
   "It's the pennies that make the pounds
   "Beg from a beggar and you will never be rich."
   "Never have a track of milk in a vessel going to a well."
   "When you go in the front door of a house do not go out the back door."
   "Here to-day and away to-morrow."
   "Never cut a brush out of a fort."
   I got these Proverbs from my Grandmother
   Mrs Ml. Cooney, Cloonee, Ballymoe, Co. Galway
   aged 80 years

   Annie Dowd
   Cloonee,
   Ballymoe

   

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   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Dowd

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cloonee, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Ml. Cooney

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   80

   Address

   Cloonee, Co. Galway