School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 128
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- 1. Did you get your tea if you did lie up on the fat of it.
2. Long threatening comes at last.
3. The long thread the lazy tailor.
4. Rubbing grease on a fat pig's back.
5. It would be better for you to be an ass to a cockle man.
6. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
7. God be with you when I can't.
8. A stitch in time saves nine.
9. It's a long road that there is not a turn on.
10. Kill the two birds with the one shot.
11. Throwing apples into an orchard.
12. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
13. A lazy man's load.
14. It is easier to fall than to rise.
15. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
16. A shut mouth makes a wise head.
17. An empty cart makes the most noise.
18. Cows from across the sea have long horns.
- Collector
- Annie Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
