School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 084
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- 1. Practice makes perfect
2. Health is better than wealth
3. Many hands make light work
4. Too many cooks spoil the broth
5. A good beginnig is half the work.
6. It is better be a penny wise than a pound foolish
7. An old ox draws a straigh furrow
8. There is a many a slip betwixt the cup and lip.
9. Dont count your chicken before they are hatched.
10. A miss is s good as a mile
11 Its a bad wind that blows nobody good.
12 You must creep before you walk.
13 Time or tide wait for no man.
14 The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the path
15 Its hard to put an old head on young(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Concannon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr P. Seery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Derries, Co. Westmeath
