School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)

Location:
Carran, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 21_020

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  1. "Never put of till to-morrow what you can do to-day"
    There is an old story connected with this old-saying. One day a farmer went to a wise man to get advice and the wise man gave him this old saying. When the man went home he was going to put his hay in-to his barns, but his servants wanted him to leave it till the next day and the farmer took out the advice the wise man gave him and he told his servants to put in the hay and there was great rain and all the other people's hay was camed away so that teaches us to "never put
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máirín Ní Breathnach
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Crughwill, Co. Clare