School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Mullach na Sí, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 129
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A light-healed mother, makes a heavy-healed daughter.
A change of work is as good as a rest.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
A wet and a windy May, fills the haggard with corn and hay.
A wet May, and a dry June, makes the farmer whistle a merry tune.
A fair February, is cursed by all the other months of the year.
A pack of March dust, is worth a kings ransom.
What's sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.
What's good for the cock, is good for the hen.
The wind north-east, is good for neither man nor beast.
Like father like son.(continues on next page)
