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School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow

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Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 272

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  1. Travelling Folk (continued)

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    donkeys for old clothes rags and bottles.
    Dummies went from house to house making signs with their hands for what they wanted.
    Blind men led by dogs went from house to house and used to get lodgings in the poor people's cabins wherever the night happened to fall on them.
    Old women used spend a day in each house knitting and darning. An old woman who was nicknamed Nancy the Tay (Tea) used travel around like this and got her name because wherever she went she always asked for a sup of tea before she started work.
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  2. Proverbs

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    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    A rolling stone gathers no moss
    Cows far away wear long horns
    Every cock crows on his own dung-hill
    Catch an old bird in chaff
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    James Cullen
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 60
    Address
    Ferrybank, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Mrs Desmond
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Gaulskill, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Larkin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 70
    Address
    Dunkitt, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Peter Phelan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny