Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

C 51 3
You hate got the water from the egg-pan, (2)
He is a pitiful fellow that would invite me to a
feaii, and make me pay the reckoning.
The landed man is at his eale, and the tradefman is
well onv
Hunger is a good cook, (aa)
335 Better the dog that fawns, than the dog that bites.
He muft put up with a flow beaft who cannot get
a better.
it is ill with him whofe lord is void of might,.
It is ill with him whole child is void of luck ^
It is ill with him whofe cottage is void of means,
But worfe is he wno has neither good nor ill.
Sprightly is the early rifer.
Dumb is the weather when the wind is iilent.
340 That is another tale.
The flut's hulband is eafily known on the bleak hihV
He is better fed than taught.
It is folly to pamper a calf that is doomed to difeafe.
When fculking in the braes of Lochaber, he fell in with
a man who lived upon hunting in the woods, where he was
kindly entertained, but the moll of their cloathing during-
the night was a cow's hide ; at the EarPs parting, he de-
fired his holt to call upon him when he would hear of his
being fettled at home ; going ro the Earl's place, he was
kindly received, and got ibrae lands. When the Karl heard
of his being come, he repeated the following lines;
" Is ionmhuinn learn am fear a tha* raach,
t{ Oh Irbhin as a Bhreugaich ;
" Bha mi oidhche na theach,
u Air mhoran bìdh is air bheagan aodaicB.
L e. " I love the man who ftands without Ob Irvin from
the Bregach ; I was a ni^ht in his houfe on much food
but little cloathing." Of the above Ob, the Irvins are laid
to be defcendedj Irvin of Drum 25 chief,