School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Bandon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)"Early to bed,
Early to rise
Makes you healthy,
Wealthy and wise."
There are stories to explain some of these proverbs. There are many stories to explain, "Those who try to grab everything usually end up by getting nothing." This is one story.
Once a kind shop keeper told a boy to take a handful of nuts from a jar. The boy grabbed so many, that he could not draw his hand out through the narrow neck. "You shall have none," said the shopkeeper, "You are too greedy."
This is another story to explain the same proverb.
Once upon a time a dog was crossing a river. He had a bone in his mouth. Glancing over the edge of the bridge, he saw, as he thought, another dog passing along with a bone as big as his own. Of course, it was only the reflection of himself and his bone in the water. The silly, greedy dog snapped at the shadow, expecting to get his neighbours bone when down fell his own bone, and sank to the bottom of the stream where he could reach it no more.
Martha Burns, Stillview, Bandon.
- Collector
- Martha Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogheenavodig, Co. Cork
