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School: Raheen (roll number 14117)

Location:
Raheen, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Thomas Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 177

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    "Once bitten twice shy"
    "A new brush sweeps clean"
    "Time and tide wait on no man"
    "When the wine is in the sense is out"
    "The truth never choked a man"
    "It is often a person's mouth broke his nose"
    "It is difficult to cut wool off a goat"
    "People meet but the hills and mountains do not meet"
    "Hunger is a good sauce"
    "A blind man is a bad judge of colours"
    "What the car will not hear will not trouble the heart."
    "A windy day is not a day for thatching"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Martin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raheen, Co. Wexford
    Collector
    Johnny Whitty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raheen, Co. Wexford
    Collector
    Michael Kane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raheen, Co. Wexford
    Collector
    Sybil Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Raheen, Co. Wexford