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Is tròm an iorram 's an t-iomradh.
'Tis heavy to chant and row.
See ' Cha 'n urrainn domh 'h-eigheach '.
Is trom an uallach an aois. Age is a heavy load.
Grave senectus est hominibiis pondus. — Lat.
Is trom buiir an t-sean laoich.
Heavy is the old herds Uoio.
See ' Is fhurasda buill' '.
Is trom dithis air aon duine.
Tiuo to one are heavy odds.
See 'Cothrom'.
Is trom dithis air an aon mhèis, gun ac' acli an t-aon
ghleiis.
Two are heavy on one dish, when there is hut one ration.
Is trom eaUach gun iris.
Heavy is the load without a rope to hold hy.
None of the Dictionaries give this meaning of the word ' iris,'
which in the Hebrides is the common term for the rope with
which a creel or a bundle of any kind is carried.
Is trom geum bo air a h-aineol.
Heavy is the coiv's low in a strange fold.
Is àrd gèum bò air a h-aineòlas.— Jr.
Is trom na tubaistean air na slibistean.
Mishaps many fall on slovens.
Is trom snithe air tigh gun tubhadh.
Rain-drops come heavy on a house unthatched.
Is truagli a' bhantrach a' pliiob.
The hay pipe is a miser ahle widow.
Pipers have generally been very imjirovident.
Is truagh nach bu cheaird sinii gu leir an diugh.
'Tis a pity ive were not all tinkers to-day.
Said by Alexander MacDonell, son of Colla Ciotach (Colkitto),
after having received great help in a fight from an Atholl tinker
named Stewart.
Is truime 'clmead na 'n eallach.
Tlie groan is heavier than the load.
Is tu fhein a tliòisich an toiseach, mar 'thuirt an
t-amadan ris an tarbh.
You hegan it yourself, as the fool said to the htdl.
The story is that a fool was passing through a field where a