School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar
- Location:
- Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)11. Hunger is a good sauce.
12. He is a bad dog that isn’t worth whistling for.
13. Never put off ‘till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
- 14. He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
15. Little strokes fell great oaks.
16. For a mischievous dog, a heavy log.
17. It’s good that mends
18. Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
19. An empty sack cannot stand.
20. A full sack cannot bend.
21. Nearer to the Church, the farther from God.
22. It’s a bad man that can’t - Collector
- Seán Ó Réagáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeenroe, Co. Roscommon
- 11. Hunger is a good sauce.
12. He is a bad dog that isn’t worth whistling for.
13. Never put off ‘till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
14. He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
15. Little strokes fell great oaks.
16. For a mischievous dog, a heavy log.
17. It’s good that mends
18. Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
19. An empty sack cannot stand.
20. A full sack cannot bend.
21. Nearer to the Church, the farther from God.
22. It’s a bad man that can’t(continues on next page)
