School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)
- Location:
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 113
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- (continued from previous page)113If you let your glove fall you should let some other one pick it up for you.
If you find a three penny bit it is the sign of a dissappointment.
There is an old saying about magpies-
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a marriage
Four for to die
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret that never will be told
It is unlucky to leave the house without water on a Saturday night.
It is lucky to sweep the hearth clean going to bed, and leave two chairs by the fire, and a cup of water on the table.
It is supposed the dead come back to their own house.
When you borrow a hatching hen it is lucky to give a penny to the person from whom you get the hen.
If you swop a thing do not give it back again. Give a thing.
Take a thing
never give it back,
You have the lock(continues on next page)
