School: Druim an Easbuig

Location:
Drumanespick, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Á. Ní Dhálaigh
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  1. 1. If the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn sell your cow and buy corn.
    2. The longest way round is the shortest way home.
    3. If you want cocks on a flock of chickens rise early before the sun has risen and set the eggs.
    4. Home, sweet home, there is no place like home.
    5. If you bathe in May you will be put in the clay.
    6. The early bird gets the first worm.
    7. Work when it is dry and stay inside when it is raining.
    8. Till May is out do not cast a clout.
    9. If it rains in May there will be no hay.
    10. An empty sack will not stand.
    11. You see better through a window than than through the wall.
    12. Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.
    13. If it rains on July 15th it will rain for forty days and forty nights.
    14. The hard road for the dog and the path for pup.
    15. The rainy day is a bad day for thatching.
    16. He who bathes in June will sing a merry tune.
    17. He who bathes in July will dance like a fly.
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        1. proverbs (~4,377)
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