Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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290 Cha'n fhalghir maith gun dragh.
Cha b' e 'n cu ma ehnaidh e.
Cha'n fhuiiing an onair clud.
Cha teich ach claghair, is cha'n fhuirich ach fèipeir.
Cumadh an TRIUBHAIS.
Cromadh gun ghainne 'fa chaol ; aon eanga deug
fan ofan -, feachd eang am beul a t beach ; is tearc
neach do nachfoghainn; air a chuma' gu dirich j ago*
a tri na ghobhal *.
295 Cluich a chuilein ris a mhial-chu.
Cha d' ith na coin an aknfir.
Croidh circ an gob na h aire.
Co iocar re luch fo chafan a chait.
Cha'n iongna gangaid àidh a dhol an t fliabh,
Ach is iongna, ath-bhean tighe bhi gun chial.
300 Cha choifin balbhan earafaid, is cha'n fhaidh ama-
dan oighreachd.
Cha bhi Tòjfich air Tinnidh 5 is cha bhi Tirinidh gua
Tòifich. (cc)
* Perhaps fame of thefe nails mould be doubled.
(ff) A ridiculous prophefy, concerning an ancient
family in Perthshire, now extinci: ; the tragical ftory of their
being killed by the Cummings, may not, perhaps, be un-
eateuaining to the reader.
About the beginning of the fourteenth century, great a-
nimofities had arifen betwixt this family and that of the
Karl of Badenoch and Athole, which was laid to have been
occasioned by the Earl's lady, who is reported to havehad
a moft voracious appetite ; to gratify which, (he was un-
der the neceffity of opprefiing her tenants to an extreme
degree. It is faid that (he devoured a choppin of marrow
every day, betides a profusion of other dainties. By extra-
vagancies of this kind, Hie fo far reduced her eftate, that
her tenants were no lunger able either to pay their rent, or
till the ground ; thus fuuated, me was obliged to have re-
courfe to her more wealthy neighbours, by foliciting pre-