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1. Proverbs

   

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   Proverbs
   26.4.'38

   (1) Sunday's stitching is Monday's ripping.
   (2) Stitch in time saves nine.
   (3) The early bird catches the worm.
   (4) Tidy in oneself, tidy in one's work.
   (5) What the blackbird whistles, have it yourself or be without it.
   (6) They will give you the birds of the bushes but you might catch them yourself.
   (7) He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
   (8) Saturday's flitting makes a short sitting.
   (9) She who changes the name but not the letter, changes for worse and not for better.
   (10) There's many a slip twix the cup and the lip.
   (11) Cuckoo oats and October hay, soon makes the farmer fly away.
   (12) Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
   (13) A bird on the hand is worth two in the bush.
   (14) A half loaf is better than no bread.
   (15) Some promises are made to be broken.
   (16) Little pitchers have long ears.
   (17) He lost the sheep, for a hallpenny worth of tar.

   I got this information from my mother Annie Mangan.

   

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