Hew Morrison Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Squeeze not the fliarp point in your hand ; difcover
not your wants to an enemy ; when the dagger is
at your brealt, let nothing elfe divert your atten-
tion ; or never aroule a venomous creature.
A fifti iVom the river, a tree from the foreft, and a
deer from the mountain, are thefts no man was
ever afliamed of (i:)
Every man's fi:rokè is at the mangy man's head.
15 Hot water will quench fire.
•The bard forefwore the caftle.
There was fome water where the ftirk was drown'il*
It were eafier to fet Gwen on horfeback.
You was in health when your coat was made.
20 Well pleaded the cock for corn to the hens.
Be filent, but attentive.
Dear bought egg with fo much cackling.
That were fending butter to the grazier's houfe.
The rook has her fervant in harveft. {d)
25 The fpot where a man is doomed to be born and to
die, will force him thither.
A black ewe will have a white lamb.
You would be a good meflenger to fend for death.
Evil will poflefs a bad woman, longer than this may
be done.
The way of the folk you live with, is what you muft
follow. * —
30 My blefling to you, but curfe to your teacheri"
Feed me to-day, and I'll feed you to.-inorrow.
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(J) Said of thofc who employ fervants without having
■ttccafion for them.