School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0970, Page 013
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- That's the hen's journey to Scotland.
Never take the book by the cover.
A little and say it well.
Put manners on your child when he is young.
Big noise in little head.
The soul is a sweet thing.
Praise youth and it will come.
Don't make a law nor don't break a law.
Sense does not come without age.
There is no one without a fault.
Wine is sweet but the results are bitter.
It is not a secret when three know it.
Lazy man's load.
Hunger is good sauce.
As white as the soul of a child.
The man on the grass is a good rider.
Every hound is a pup until he hunts.
It is not on one foot that Patrick came to Ireland.
Straight as the law of God.
As white as the foam on the rock.
Empty vessels make the most rattle.
Never mock an old man.
A rainbow in there morning is a shepherd's warning a rainbow in the evening the evening is a sailors(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Timmon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clowninny, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- W. Timmon
- Address
- Clowninny, Co. Cavan
