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School: Kilcullen (B.)

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Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 09_019

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    fore man answers back "that he was not a foreman there".
    When children are having their meals at home, if they are having bad manner their mother says this "Manners begins at home"
    I know one story about a proverb. The proverb is this this. "Never put of till tomorrow what you can do to day." The story is this. One Christmas morning a boy was to do something and he said he would do it on the morrow but his mother said the proverb and then he did it.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pádraig De Núinnseáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Peter Phelan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Kilcullen, Co. Kildare