School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Coill an Chláir, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 265
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- 1. A cat wearing gloves does not catch mice2. Lick the bone and the dog will follow you3. The harder you walk the further you will go4.The fat pig never thinks of the hungry pig5. The life of a horse would not win an ass6. A man without learning and wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a dirty pigs nose.7. Throwing an apple into an orchard8. Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall9. The fat pig in the sty never thinks about the poor pig passing by10. Shoes in the cradle and none when able11. Now I have a cow and a horse and everyone bids me good morrow.12. That is the last, the same as the cobbler threw at his wife. That is said when a person is giving away or eating the last bit of anything. Once a cobbler threw a cobbling last at his wife and this originated expression.13. You did it by chance as the cow killed the hare. That old saying was used because one time a cow walked(continues on next page)
