School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)
- Location:
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)seven years you will want it again
159. Never forsake the old for the new.
160. Never do at midnight what you will be sorry for in the morning.
161. Never go a short cut at night when you can go the road.
162. Kill not the bee or butterfly for the last judgement draweth near.
163. If you want to live or thrive let the spider run alive.
164. If you were as hatches as you are catches you would have birds out long ago.
165. Let every day do for itself.
166. A hen with chickens won't burst her craw.
167. There is no tomorrow for anyone.
168. The Devils children have the devils luck.
169. God fits the back for the burden.
170. Better be an old man's pet than a young man's slave.
171. Marry for love and work for riches.
172. Long fair long foul.
173. You have to cut the cloth by the measurements.
174. Them that's born to be hung will never(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosie Hogg
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crowinstown Great, Co. Westmeath
