School: Corlea
- Location:
- An Chorr Liath, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: T. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1009, Page 079
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- Proverbs
Its thick as a ditch
Its fat as a fool
Its happy as the day is long.
Its flat as a pan-cake.
Its old as the hills.
Its hardy as wild duck.
Its contrary as a bag of weasels.
As sour as gall.
as sweet as sugar.
You are not as green as your cabbage.
You know no more than the man in the moon.
As mute as a mouse.
As smart as a bee.
as happy as the flowers of may.
as wild as a deer.
as wicked as a wasp.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornamagh, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Philip Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Cornamagh, Co. an Chabháin
