School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 130
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- "Cat after kind makes a good mouser."
"There is many away for killing a cat beside choking him with butter."
"Give a dog a bad name and you may hang him"
"Get the name of an early riser and you many sleep till twelve o'clock"
"When the wind blows Sloth begins to travel"
"We never miss the water till the well runs dry"
- Long ago in the coaching days the Galway coach was very often a day late. This no doubt was owing to the bad roads and its remoteness and so it is said of any person who misses his opportunity.
He is "A day late like the Galway coach.(continues on next page)
