School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)

Location:
Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
H. Fitzgerald
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  1. Proverbs
    1. The help of God is nearer than the door
    2. There is no fireplace like your own fireplace
    3. Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat.
    4. Don't make laws, nor break laws.
    5. The windy day is not the day for the scallop
    6. It is bad wind, that doesn't blow someone good.
    7. Marry a womman from the west, and you marry the whole west.
    8. One keerogue knows another.
    9. You can't make a racehorse out of an ass.
    10. Better be idle than badly employed.
    11. The idle-mind is the devil's workshop.
    12. The old dog for the long road, and the pup for the fields (path).
    13. A good run is better than a bad stand.
    14. The devil's children, have the devil's own luck.
    15. One good turn deserves another - or putting the boot on the other foot.
    16. Empty cans make the most sound
    17. That you may never have two cows, for fear one would puck the other.
    18. Far-away cows have long horns.
    19. Don't go to the goat's house for wool.
    20. It's kind for him to be good.
    21. don't go within an ass's roar of each other.
    22. He'd drink the Shannon dry.
    23. You might as well empty the sea with a bottomless cup.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annetta Dalton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonlahard East, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs James Dalton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    81
    Address
    Cloonlahard East, Co. Limerick