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School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)

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Slane, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 309

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    which I saw in print and I hear a lot of them from time to time from my old grandmother. Those old people seem to have these sayings on the top of their tongue when occasions occur. Here are a few I heard not too long ago. "He was just like the man that killed the goose that laid the golden egg every day." I enquired how this proverb was first thought of and I was told the story of a man that had a goose and he brought her to a witch and she put a spell on her that she would always lay him a golden egg every day. Well after a while this man thought that he should get all the gold together and he killed the goose and to his great dismay he found she was like any other goose inside and he got no more gold. This is a very popular saying in my district. He was just like the man that killed the goose that laid the golden egg every day.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gernonstown, Co. Meath