School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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- (continued from previous page)Go back and shut the gate.13. Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Late to bed and late to rise
Makes a man beg before he dies.14. Put a twig standing up in a heap of ashes and move the ashes away be degrees saying -
Shave the poor fellow,
To make him be mellow,
Cut off his beard,
To make him 'affeard'
If the poor fellow
Chances to fall
My poor back
Will pay for all. 15. My wife she's a rascal,
I'll tell you what she did,
She upset the cradle,
And nearly killed the kid.16. Saturday night, my wife she died
And Sunday she was buried,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan