School: Coolfore (roll number 10700)
- Location:
- Coolfore, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)Never count your chickens before they are hatched.
It is late to lock the stable door when the horse is gone.
A dry May and a wet June make the farmer whistle a merry tune.
It is late to be thatching when it is raining.
A miller always has fat pigs but you dont know whose meal feeds them.
You should'n't cry "Wolf" until you are out of the wood.
After a storm there is always a calm.
A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
Time or tide wait for no man.
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.
Better wear out than rust out.
Fine feathers make fine birds.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Rafferty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghnaroog, Co. Monaghan
