School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)

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1. Seanfhocail (continued)

   

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   5) Youth without learning and wearing fancy clothes is like a gold ring on a pig's nose.

   6) Curses like chickens come home to roost
   7) Despise school and remain a fool

   8) Early to bed and early rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

   9) Empty barrels make most noise

   

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2. A Funny Story

   

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   One very cold morning in January a milkman was travelling the streets of a large Town in England, delivering milk. The vehicle in which he carried the cans of milk was a small cart drawn by a miserable looking black donkey. At length he came to a large building, surrounded by fancy railing. He took a large can of milk from the cart and went round to the back of the house to give it in.
   In the meantime a number of boys who had hidden themselves some yards away came forward to execute their plan. They unyoked the donkey, lead him inside the railing, then a few of them pushed the shafts of the cart through the railing and had the donkey

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Mooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilconly, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Thomas Mooney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilconly, Co. Galway