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

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2. Pleasant abroad, and surly at home.
8. Trusting to a broken sword.
4. Between the sap and the wand.
5. It went between the hand and the side.
6. Between the grass and the fodder.
7. Between the^ow and the string.
8. Between the new ship and the old headland.
9. Merriment without good luck [z. e. unlucky mirth.]
1 0. Death, and frequent removal, destroy husbandry.
11. Between the two. (7z)
12 Birds sent to the wood.
13. A gossiping stroke, (o)
14?. Between the streams.
1 5. A Spring protracted long after Easter.
IQ, Learn thy grandmother how to make brochan
[gruel.] (p)
F.
1 . We may strike a hack in the post. Nay, 'tis un-
lucky, replies the guest.
2. Where a man is least beloved, he is easiest over-
thrown.
3. The man equal to me in wealth requesting a dole
[fragment] from me.
4. The rejoose of the smith's lad, from the hammer to
the bellows.
5. Where nothing is, the king must lose his right, [q]
{n) Or, between enough and nothing,
(o) Said of one who has been hurt on a visit,
(jo) " Tell your auld glee'd giddim that." — Kelh/,
(,q) " Where there is naething the king tines his right."—
Bamsai/s Scott. Prov.
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