School: Gallow (roll number 8301)
- Location:
- Gallow, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhuirín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 324
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- Proverbs heard locally
1. "Youth must have its fling" as the woman said when she jumped across the pot-stick.
(This proverb applies to an elderly person fond of enjoyment or pleasure more suited to one younger.)
2. "Long straws are no dirt" as the girl said when she pulled the "spanshel" out of the stirabout. This is said sometimes on finding a foreign body like a hair in food.
3. "Everyone to his taste" as the woman said when she kissed the cow.
4. "Butter to butter is a bad kitchen"
5. "Trot Mammy, trot foal"
(The child has the same characteristics as the parent.)
6. "You can't hunt a bird out of a bush it is not in" (You can't expect a person to pay his debts when he has no money)
7. "An active mother makes a lazy daughter." (Mother does all the work instead of letting the daughter do it.)
8. "You can't make stirabout without meal."(continues on next page)
