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

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133. Nimble is the slothful [bad] man-servant on an
excursion.
134-. Two partaking of one dish is rather heavy, when
there is but one course.
135. The birds are alive though not hawks.
136. Stronger than the laird arc the tenantry.
137. The eye that is hurt is shy, /. e, afraid of harm.
ISS. Speedy is the man who comes in affright.
1 39. Better is a good retreat than a bad stand.
140. Wherever you are, get what you can.
14-1. I care not for a drinking-club. [e)
142. The poor are contented with soup, though it be
not well boiled. (J )
143. Each [bleak] hill is a [green] knoll in sum-
mer. (^)
1 44. Bare is the flat stone [slab] you may not take a
hold of.
145. Better a mother baged [loaded with bags] than a
father sw^orded. {h)
146. It is a good abode where food is obtained for the
asking.
147. The carlin's loss of her bag is a loss, since it was
her all.
148. It is in vam to seek for warm water under a cold
stone.
the place of the jurisdiction of a bailiff, or bailie.'' The root of
this word is to be traced through most ancient and modem lan-
guages.
(js) The Gael are dritiiers, but by no means drunkards ; and
we never heard of a Drinkmg club among the Grampians, or in
the Hebrides.
(/) « Poor folks are glad of pottage."— i2ay 5 Prov.
(g) " Thus up the mount, in airy vision wrapt,
" 1 stray, regardless whither." — ThomsorCs Summer, 585.
{h " Better a thigging mother, than a riding father." — Kei-
i^s Prov.