School: Doire Gealbhan (C.), Ceann Tuirc (roll number 9788)
- Location:
- Derrygalun, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)smooth handle.
Live horse and you will get grass.
A cart horse could never win the Derby.
Foreign cows wear long horns.
Your story sounds as queer as you would think of holding water in a sieve.
You can't expect blood out of a turnip.
He that goes a borrowing shall go a sorrowing.
Fools make feasts while wise men eat them.
What is natural can't be remarkable.
Silence gives consent.
Suspicion haunts the guilty mind.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Rear a crow what way you will he will never show the rook in every quill.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.(continues on next page)
