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

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8. Dean do ghearain re fear gun ioclid, is deir e,
" Tha thu bochd !"
9. Dheanadh tu teaghair do roiniaig.
10. Dubhairt clag Scain, an rud nach buin duit na
buinda.
11. Dean do gharadh far an d'rinn dm t-fhuarach.
12. Dean na's tige leat, is chi thu na's ait leat.
13. Duine gu h-aois, is bean gu bas.
14. " Deanadh sin è," ma'n dubhart an cù ma na
chè. ( ?/)
15 Dean fanaoid air do shean a bhrogan.
16. Dleasaidh foighidhinn furtachd, — agus-tuig thus'
mise.
17. Dean do shèanadh o'n Diobhal is o chlann an
Tighearna (z)
18. Diu na comhairle g'a toirt far nach gabhar i.
19. Dheanadh e rud-eigin do dh'aon fhear, ach *s
beag a chuid dithis e, mar a thuirt Alastair
am flath ma'n t-saoghal.
20. Dean cnuasach san t-samhra ni 'n geamhra chuir
seachad.
21. Deoch-an dorais.
22. Deir gach fear, ochoin ! è fèin.
23. Dean math air deadh dhuine, 's biodh deadh
dhuine g*a reir: dean math air neo-dhuine is
bithidh neò-dhuine dha fciii.
(?/) The dog being desired by his mistress to lick cream, ask-
ed, Why? because it is spilt, replied his mistress — *•' that would
do it," said the dog.
(z) " Sain [bless] yourself from the de'il and the laird's
bairns. — A caution,'* observes Kell^, " of poor people to their
children, how they meddle with their superiors ; for, if they hurt