School: Machaire
- Location:
- Magherintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ó Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)13. Bitter is the taste of truth.
14. Live horse and you'll get grass.
15. As you live yourself you judge your neighbour.
16. Blood is thicker than words (Advice given to not interfere in quarrels of relations)
17 A Fidgety person is said to be "Like a herrin' on a hot griddle
18. A delicate person is "as weak as water-gruel"
19. Live as long as you can
(The dead are soon forgotten)
20 Patience and perseverance would bring a snail to Jerusalem.
21 "As white as the foam on the rock" (to describe whiteness)
22 "As whit as the Virgin's garment."
23 "As white as the soul of a child".
24. A generous person is said to be "as princely as a(continues on next page)
