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School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

Location:
Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0269

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    “It is an old saying that much wants more.”

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    While money holds luck turn. A bird in your hand is better than two in the bush. And a fish in the pan is better than two in the bus, sea. The longer you live the more you hear.
    It is a bad wind that dont blow good sometime.
    You are once a man and twice a child.
    The hill look green far away.
    You would see the big cattle out grazing and no sight of the poor man's small cow.
    The man on the ditch is always the best
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