School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)
- Location:
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Patrick Kelleher
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- 1. The old sayings long ago were, never trouble, trouble, until trouble, troubles you.
2. People in glass houses cannot throw stones.
3. The bread that is eaten is soon forgotten.
4. When a man is up they drink his health and when a man is down they walk in him.
5. Kind cat kind kitten.
6. When the old cock crows the young cock learns.
7. The longest way around, is the shortest way home.
8. Every dog barks at his own door.
9. If you have the name of an early riser, you can sleep until dinner-time.
10. It is the early bird that catch the worm.
11. Never put until to morrow what you can do to day.
12. It is a long boreen that has not a turn.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Scannell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Piercetown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Thomas Scannell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Piercetown, Co. Cork