School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 157
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(9) Doctors differ and patients die.
(10) Blood is thicker than water.
(11) There is a slippy stone outside eveyones door.
(12) There was never a boot made, but there was a foot to fit it.
(13) Never send a child on a man's errand.
(14) Take the ball on the hop.
(15) Never say die until your dead.
(16) A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
(17) Never dread the wall that shakes.
(18) All is not lost thats in danger.
(19) There is hope from the ocean, but not from the grave.
(20) Without a beginning there is never an end.
- Collector
- Peter Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
