School: Fedoo (roll number 1745)
- Location:
- Fiodh Dubh, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhaicín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 070
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- 1. A bad penny always turns up.
2. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
3. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, wise.
4. It is hard to pay for a loaf when you have it eaten.
5. Far away fields are green.
6. It is hard to take breeches off a Highlander.
7. It is often a person's mouth broke his nose.
8. Dead with tea and dead without it.
9. Where there's smoke, there's a fire.
10. Long runs the fox but he is caught at last.
11. One good turn deserves another.
12. People meet but the hills and the mountains never meet.
13. When the wine is in the sense is out.
14. Money makes the mare go and the hounds make the hare go.
15. Manners make the man and the hat makes the woman.
16. Don't judge the book by the back.
17. It is hard to whistle and chew meal.
18. The early bird catches the early worm.
19. Beggars aren't choosers(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary F. Mackin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
