School: Kilmessan (C.) (roll number 4211)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Stín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0690, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)34. A new brush sweep cleans.
35. Throwing apples into an orchard.
36. Time is a good storyteller.
37. Word is better than talk.
38. Lie with a lamb and rise with a bird.
39. An empty sack cannot stand.
40. A little tastes sweet.
41. As hot as it would scald a Minister.
42. As long as a late breakfast.
43. As black as a bay.
44. As black as the earl of hells waistcoat.
45. The devil knows his own.
46. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
47. Make hay while the sun shines.
48. A stitch in time saves nine.
49. As crooked as the thread of an old stocking.
50. As tough as a "gad." (The gad is the piece of leather that joins the two sticks of a flail).
51. A lie has no legs.
52. The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
53. You can't make a race horse out of an ass.
54. Its a story for ever marriage or death.
55. One swallow never made a summer.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- H. Mc Steen
- Address
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
