School: Carpenterstown (Templefanum) (roll number 5415)
- Location:
- Carpenterstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Smyth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0722, Page 171
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- There are long horned cows in Connaught. Foreign cows have long horns.
A silent pip eats mosh. (This is usually applied to a person who remains silent while the rest of the company is talking.)
The day of the wind is not the day of the scallop.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. (Applied to a person who could not be taught good manners.)
A cat has leave to look at the king.
When the cat is out the mice can play.
If the cap does not fit you don't wear it.
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
Happy is the corpse that the rain, rains on.
Live horse and you will eat grass.
When the cat is out the mice can play.
What's in the cat is in the kitten.
The longer we live the more we know.
His bark is worse than his bite.
One swallow never made a summer.
When you are in a hurry take your time.
Good luck is better than early rising.
If you have the name of an early riser you can sleep all day.
Where there's muck, there's luck.
