Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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A N egg without butter or fait, may breed a diftem-
IX per, though at feven years diftance.
The brown hen's egg gone to the great man's houfe,
without bringing the egg of a goofe in return.
The compliments of the impertinent to the trouble-
fome. (a)
The fat of the cow taken outwardly and inwardly, if
it does not cure a Highlandman, he is incurable*
5 The brown water at the fall of the leaf, the black at
the fpringing of the roots, and the grey water of
the fhoots in May, are the three worft of all.
Earth! earth! on the mouth of Oran, that he may
not blab more, (b)
c friend. Oran raifed his fwimming eyes, and faid,
" Cha y n 'ei/ am bas na ionga-ntas,
" No ifrimi mar db y ait hr if ear,
" There is no wonder in death, and hell is not as it is
* reported."
" The faint was fo fhocked i>y fuch fentiments, that he
< called out in a great hurry, in the words of the aboye
* proverb.
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