School: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Flannan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 204
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- (continued from previous page)taken."Sure he'd charm the birds of the bushes".
Said to a good singer.A voice like the pea-cock crying out for the rain.Like the bawling of a dying Jack-ass.
Said to a bad singer.That fellow would steal the cross off an asses or the eye out of your head, or the milk out of your tea. Said to a thief.Step other; it's so weak, it is hardly able to come out of the tea-pot.
Weak tea.Good mug of tea, hot strong and sweet you could trot a mouse on it.
Beef to the heels like a Mullingar heifer.
Said to stout people.Keep to working men - Would you eat an egg. "Begor I know a man that ate two and it never did him(continues on next page)
