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

101
65. Whoever will not do business quickly with a pro-
per match, he may do it unseasonably.
66. Whoso comes first, gets the best of the ban-
quet, (b)
67. Every dog sets on the strange dog.
68. Though he be the worst, yet, if the strongest, he
will be uppermost.
69. A wizard's wife will get retribution without buy-
ing it, and she will not get a curse.
70. To whomsoever you gave the meal, give him the
corn-husks.
71. The cuckoo's voice in the magpie's mouth.
72. Whoever is kind to me, his guest I oft shall be.
73. Whoever comes unasked, will sit down unbidden,
74. The sharpness of small-beer.
75. Though he changed his misery, yet he changed
not his manner.
76. Whoso feedeth not his dogs, will have them not
on the chace°day.
77. Much cackling, and [but] a small egg,
78. Whoso spares the rod, regards but little his
son. (<?)
79. Take the word for the deed, (d)
80. Should you hear an idle [formless] tale, repeat
it not.
(b) " First come first serv'd," — Ramsay s Scott, Prov.
(c) " He that spareth the rod hateth his child." " Birchefì
twigs break no ribs."
{d) '^ Take the will for the deed."
13