School: Fortview, Clones (roll number 15300)
- Location:
- Clones, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. de Bhál
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0946, Page 124
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- (continued from previous page)heavens to the eel. “Are you letting them take your fortune.” So the diver dropped the pan into the lake, and it was never recovered.
“There's many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip.”Always look before you leap.Better late than never.Those in a hurry often come to grief.Better the devil you know than the one you don't.A reserved lover makes a suspicious husband.Silence never betrays you.They are scarce of news that speak ill of their mother.A man got up one morning in a hurry and put on his trousers “back-ways foremost,” and when he was on his way he fell. On getting up he looked at himself and said, that he must have got a terrible twist, for his trousers were “back-ways foremost.”This incident gave rise to the saying in this area.(continues on next page)
