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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

Location:
Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 400

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    As busy as a hen, that has 2 eggs to lay.
    Don't laugh till you're out of the wood.
    He laughs best who laughs last.
    A borrowed ass has hard hooves.
    Every cock crows on his own dung hill.
    "A wet and windy May
    Fills the haggard][?] with corn and hay."
    "An Iron Fool"
    The bigger the climb, the higher the fall.
    They (a certain family) are so long in the country, that the seed is run into poachiens (poirini) (they are small in stature).
    Don't ask and you won't be refused.
    As blind as a bat.
    "Where the muck is
    The luck is"(excuse given by dirty people)
    "Decent people are not exact" (ditto)
    You couldn't choke a cat with butter.
    The day you buy is the day you sell.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Gorman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Leitrim