Blair Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases

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44. Ail are not maidens who wear their own [unco-
vered] hair.
45. The sow will keep her own stye clean, (s)
46. Whether on strath or in glen, it is from her
head the cow yields her flow of milk.
47. The dream of the night is but a warning un- .
solved, (t)
48. To pick and eat is the pig's delight.
49. Sense [skill] kindles a fire : order keeps a city :
the treacherous man's offspring lasts not ; nor
is clemency shewn to his children.
.50. None stored up, that used not. {u)
ol. Two never kindled a fire, but it lit between them.
52. You know not how to mount your horse without
overleaping him.
£•3. A birthright belongs not to a woman, nor to a
priest.
54. We will not make a song of it.
55. He put not his shoulder to it, but to advantage.
56. A carle will not tell a falsehood in presence of
his children.
57. Request merits no reproof.
58. The sword in its sheath is unknown, till drawn
from the scabbard.
(s) " The tod (fox) keeps ay his ain hole clean." — /?«?/>
sat/'s Scott. Prov.
( t) " Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate ;
And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true." — Mich.
Bruce,
(u) " Keep a thing seven years and you will find use for it,"
— Scott. Prov.
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