School: Drom Loiste (roll number 5113)
- Location:
- Drumlusty, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maoláin
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- (continued from previous page)not be worth gathering them for they would not do for seed.
- Proverbs.
1) A stitch in time saves nine.
2) Don't let your tongue cut your throat.
3) Windows opened more would keep doctors from our door.
4) One to day is worth two to morrows.
5) Live horse and you'll get grass.
6) Its a long road that has no turning.
7) What the ear will not hear will not trouble.
8) A blind man is a bad judge of colours.
9) When the wine is in the sense is out.
10) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
11) Many hands make light work. - Collector
- Margaret Mc Gahan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Owen Mc Gahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shancobane, Co. Monaghan
