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

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2. The brown hen's egg has gone to the [laird's]
great house without bringing away the goose's
egg. [k)
3. The beggar's deference to the haughty,
4. If the cow's fat, applied outwardly and inwardly,
heal not a Gael, his cure is not to be found, {i)
5. The dun deluge at the leafs fall ; the black flood
at the root's springing ; and grey inundation in
May, are the tliree worst flows of water that
can be. *
6. Earth, earth ! on Oran's mouth, lest he speak
more, [/. e. betray the secrets of the dead.]
7. Health comes gradually, but in huge billows
comes ailment-
(^) This failure in an unexpected return of a small gift for a
greater, happens not unfrequently !
(i) The fat of animals and butter are the usual specifics in
most of the diseases incident to our Gael^
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