School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 074
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- (continued from previous page)4 "Hail fellow well met."
5 "The sight of you is good for sore eyes."
6 "On their merits modest men are dumb."
7 "Set a beggar on horse back and he will out stride the devil."
Jimmy from Sonna was an old fellow who used to beg around here fifty years ago. One day he met a man who asked him what he had in the bag. After a minute Jimmy answered "Butter milk".
One day Biddy Smyth who lived near Portloman made a cake. She made it too big and put too much bread soda in it. The cake swelled and lifted the lid of the pot oven. Often my mother would be making a cake when Granny would say "Mind would it raise the lid of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Millie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
