School: Dysert (roll number 8640)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Nic Eochagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 447
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- (continued from previous page)"The beginning of a kiln is a stone"
"The ending of a kiln is burning"
"It is not possible to be eating meal and whistling"
"The thing that is bought dear is often sold cheap"
"Time is a good storyteller"
"What is a herring worth when he is half eaten"
"Man proposes but God disposes"
"The juice of a cow is good dead or alive"
"Your pocket is your friend"
"A full purse makes a light heart"
"Looking for a needle in a hay stack"
"The ditches have ears"
"A green Christmas a fat churchyard"
"Lambs plentiful, wool cheap"
"A borrowed horse has hard hooves"
"When the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn sell out yours hay and bay in corn"
"A wet and a windy May filles the haggard full of corn and hay"
"The lake is not the heavier for the duck"
"Early to bed and early(continues on next page)
