School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   Your like Lanna Machre's dog, a bit of the road with everybody (leanbh mo Chroidhe)
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   Two hands makes light work
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   Two at a fire always fight
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   The longer you live the more you know
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2. Care of the Feet

   

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   The only people around here that never wore boots were two men. I cannot find their names. If you wash your feet in the night time and throw the water out without spitting in it, it is said that you threw it in on the angels face. If you forget to spit in it you should gather yellow rag weed. That is a yellow weed that grows in bad land. It is about twenty years since clogs were worn. Young children go barefooted in summer. If you have tender feet boil the bark of oak and it will make them all right, if you bathed in liquor

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   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
         2. agriculture (~2,659)
   2. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
         1. shoes (~1,841)
   3. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)
      2. land management (~4,110)
   4. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

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