Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases

memory. Some of his contributions to the Gad'^ are
such as no other man could have given. Much as I
have been assisted in this work by other friends, I
received most help from him, and of a constant and
ever ready kind. By his early death Gaelic Literature
has sustained a great loss, and no one has more cause to
lament it than I have.
Of others to whom I have been indebted for contri-
butions of Proverbs are Mr. Donald McLaren, Loch
Earn, Mrs. Mary MacKellar, Mr. Alex. ]\Iackay,
and Mr. Murdo MacLeod, of Edinburgh, both from
Sutherland.
Mr. Donald Mackinnon, ]\I.A., Edinburgh, whose
papers on Gaelic Proverbs in the Gael showed excep-
tional knowledge of the subject, and power to deal
wdth it, has given me valuable assistance in many ways.
To the Eev. Dr. Clerk of Kilmallie, and the Eev. Mr.
Stewart of 'Nether Lochaber,' I am much bound for
kind help and suggestions. Of friends who helped me
in regard to foreign proverbs, I have specially to thank
Mr. A. L. Finlay, Dumfries, and Mr. J, A. Hjaltalin,
Iceland.
In addition to the various sources above acknow-
ledged, I found a considerable number of proverbs in
the interesting columns of the HigJdandcr, some in the
Gael, and a few in the Dictionaries of Armstrong, the
Highland Society, and Mac Alpine. I carefully searched,
and not in vain, in the pages of the Teachdaire Gaelach
1 A well conducted Gaelic Man;azine, which lasted longer than
any of its predecessors — six years. Its stoppage in December
1877 was much to be regretted.