School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 118
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Keep the bone and the dog will follow you.
There is no overtaking the shot once fired.
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
A cat likes fish but does not like to wet her feet.
A straight tree may have crooked roots.
Dead with tea and dead without it.
Keep not what is not your own.
A good run us better than a bad stand.
To borrow or beg or give ones is the very worst practice that ever was known.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Right foot foremost was an old Roman order about entering a house because the left was thought unlucky. A boy was kept at the door to see that no one entered the house. There is an old(continues on next page)
