School: Baile na Carraige, Cill Díoma (roll number 11295)

Location:
Ballynacarriga, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Gríobhtha
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    2) If you dont mend the old clothes you have the new clothes.
    3) The longest way round is the surest way home.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 10 One good trick is better than ten bad one.
    One day a fox and a cat were talking. The fox said to cat if the hounds came now, I have many tricks, but you have no trick. After a while they heard the hounds coming. The fox tried all his tricks, but was caught. The cat ran up a tree and was saved.
    20 It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
    3) It is too late to spare when all is spent.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dolly O Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Q. O Neill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    77