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School: Clonahard, Longford (roll number 14281)

Location:
Cloonahard, Co. Longford
Teachers:
Mrs Vaughan Miss Ellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 158

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    A live dog is better than a dead lion
    The cat has leave to look at the King
    When the cat is out the mice can play
    If you put a silk dress on a goat it is till a goat.
    To every cow belongs her calf.
    There is as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
    One rogue knows another.
    "Isn't I can rais the dust" said the fly behind the coach.
    The day of the wind is not the day of the scollap
    Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall
    But soft upon soft would not make
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Connaughton
    Gender
    Female