School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 12
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- (continued from previous page)Silks, Satin Scarlet + Velvet put out the kitchen fire.
Poverty is no crime.
There's luck in Leisure + pleasure in waiting on it.
Two heads are better than one.
Lie with the dogs + you will rise with fleas.
As God made them He matched them.
The devil is good to his own.
If you have a goose you will get a goose.
There's trouble with children + trouble without them
A borrowed horse has hard Hooves.
The shoemakers wife + the smiths horse are always badly shod.
Rubbing grease on a fat pigs back.
Selling honey + buying sweets.
You can't whistle + chew meal.
Dont listen to all you hear.
A woman told me that a woman told her.
More noise than wool. Like the devil shearing the pig
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
