School: Breac-Cluain (roll number 4796)
- Location:
- Brackloon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Meachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 470
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- (continued from previous page)Always be honest in thy work & in thy word.
If you do not sow in the Spring you will not reap in Autumn.
Better late than never.
The help of God is nearer than the door.
You cannot whistle and chew meal.
As long as the fox runs he is caught at last.
Don't judge the book by the cover.
Have yourself or do without.
No use crying spilled milk.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Nearer the church the farther from God.
You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.
There is many a slip between the cup (& lip)(continues on next page)
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“There was a poor scholar...”
There was a poor scholar going around and he read the lid, no other one could do it. When he was reading it he was laughing, and Páidín asked him what was he laughing at. "It is wrote on this lid he," said "the other side of the tree is as good as this."
When the scholar went P. went and dug another pot of gold at the other side of the tree. - Collector
- Delia Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Prospect, Co. Mayo
