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School: Drong (2)

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Drung, Co. Cavan
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Bean Uí Fháinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 406

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    If you take a thing of equal value with another person he says the proverb.
    "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    This is said when a person is leaving what he has and says that he might get the other.
    The guilt, flee when no man pursueth".
    "Conscience makes cowards of us all.
    Both mean, if a person is guilty, he is always afraid.
    "A burnt child dreads the fire"
    "Once bitten, twice shy."
    "Time and tide wait for no man.
    Suppose a person is in a hurry and must be away at two o'clock. Two o'clock comes and he is not away, because the time won't wait.
    "He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
    "A new broom sweeps clean,"
    When you begin a thing you do it very well at first, but you finish it carelessly.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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