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

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318. Cluinidh 'n dùbhuich is cù Rob a cheird e.
319. Cha nigh na tha dh'uisg 's a mhuir ur cairdeas.
320. Car an aghaidh cuir. {t)
321. Cha'n 'eil eun 'sa choille nach eil am foil na
banntraich.
322. Cha tig a chaith-chriona ach do shiol nam bod-
ach.
323. Cha'n fhacar fear-foighe riamh gun tombac, {it)
324«. Cinnidh Clann Fhearchair gus an deiche line.
325. Car tuathal t-aimh-leas.
326. Ceann mor air duine gUc, is ceann circ air ama-
dan.
327. Cha mhillear maith ri h-olc dhiudh.
328. Cha toir an donas an car asda.
329. Chuir thu ceann graineil air ma dheire.
330. Chuir è chrobh air àireachas.
331. Cha dean thugain cèum, is cha do chailear
theab.
{t) " Diamond cut diamond."
(tt) Fearfoighe, — " Foigke, a voluntary contribution given
to such of the decent poor as are ashamed to beg."- O'Reillys
Dictionary. Wherefore, /car'/oig/^e may with propriety be called
a gentle beggar. The present editor of this little work has re-
peatedly observed this practice still existing in Brae-loch aber. It
may be of Irish origin, as many of the descendants of Alister
MacColla's [McDonald] followers, who came over with hiln
from Ireland, and fought in the great Montrose's battles, have
inherited, as it were, small possessions under the Keppoch fami-
ly, on the lands of the Duke of Gordon and Macintosh of Mac-
intosh. " I'higging, says Kelly, is something less than begging :*'
hence it should seem, that gentle beggars were at one time rife