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

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318. All the country will hear of it, and Rob the
Tinker's dog too.
319. All the water in the sea cannot wash [obliterate]
our friendship.
320. Twist against twist.
321. There is not a bird in the wood that is not a
while a widow.
322. The dwi?idli?ig-evil becomes but the race of the
rustics, [?. e. " the sons of little men."]
323. A geìitle-beggaì- was never seen without tobac-
co.
324. The Clan Farquhar will flourish till the tenth ge-
neration. (^)
S'2.0. The left-about turn is unlucky, {y)
^^2.(5, A wise man is large-headed, and a fool is hen-
headed, [z. e, small headed.] {z)
327. Spoil not the good in amending the bad of them.
328. The mischief [devil] will not outwdt you.
329. You have finished it vilely at last.
330. He has sent the kine to the grazing.
'331. '^ A-coming'' will not advance a step, nor is
" almost^' a-missing.
among the lowland Scots, as well as among the Scottish and
Irish Gael.
(.r) Alluding to the traditionary history of the Chief of the
Farquharsons.
See additional Notes.
(i/) See Martinis Western Isles, and Skeffer's Account of
Lapland.
(z) This has been observed in all countries, and in all agesj
and has lately been revived, with great force of reason and feli-
city of illustration, by the learned and ingenious Doctors Gall
and Spurzheim, and worked up into a very plausible system. Cui
hono ?