School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Margaret Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)Where there's a will there's a way.
While there's life there's hope.
It is not the day you are harrowing you should feed your horse.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
Too much bed makes a dull head.
A wet and windy month of May, fills the haggard with corn and hay,
A wet May and a dry June, makes the farmer whistle a happy tune.
Long churning spoils the butter.
Marry in haste and repent in leisure.
Warm feet and a cold head, brings you safe and sound to bed.
The most haste the less speed.
Do not count your chickens till they are hatched.
It is not the day of the big wind you should point the scallop.
No news is good news.
The longer you live the more you know.
When it rains it pours.
Talk is cheap.
They who laugh last laugh best.
If you sleep with dogs you will rise with(continues on next page)
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