School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 378
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- (continued from previous page)heart. (7) The time and the tide, they wait for no one. (8) The person who is up his health is drunk. (9) A little tastes sweet. (10) Man proposes but God disposes. (11) A closed mouth and a wise heart. (12) Tell me your company and I will tell you who you are. (13) Praise youth and it will come. (14) A good beginning is half the work. (15) Strife is better than loneliness.
John was a lazy farmer who always put off his work from day to day. He had corn to sow. A neighbour came for him and he went with him. The next day was wet and the next day he was sick. In the end he gave up as the season for sowing was past and he had no corn to reap.
There are a good many people like John when they have anything to do instead of it they forget forget the old saying "Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to day.
- 1 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush 2 Time or tide wait for nobody. 3 Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wise. 4 Don't ever throw out the dirty water until the clean water is brought in. 5(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Jeremiah Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inchafune, Co. Cork
