Part 22 (1/2)

Change your friend ere ye hae need

Changes are lightso o' hearts

Charge nae ins at haame will aye kythe

”Kythe,” to appear That is, cheatery or evil-doing will allish saying, ”Murder will out”

Choose your wife on Saturday, not on Sunday

This saying suggests that a wife should rather be chosen for her good qualities and usefulness, which are seen in her daily labours, than for her fine dress or her Sunday manners

Claw for claw, as Conan said to the deil

”In the Irish ballads relating to Fion (the Fingal of MacPherson), there occurs, as in the primitive poetry of uishi+ng attribute; upon these qualities, and the adventures of those possessing them, hlands Auished as in so even to rashness He hadit; and having, like other heroes of antiquity, descended to the infernal regions, he received a cuff from the archfiend who presided there, which he instantly returned: hence the proverb”--_Sir Walter Scott, Note to Waverley_

Claw me and I'll claw thee

Speak well of me and I will speak well of thee, whether, we presu needs but a beginning

Clean pith and fair play

Clear in the south beguiled the cadger

Cadgers (beggars, or gipsy pedlars), froes of coes may be occasionallyis of sih time's aye canty time

Good cheer and mirth in the house when a birth has taken place

”'Perhaps,' said Mannering, 'at such a tiht be inconvenient?' 'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house isti_

Clippet sheep will grow again

Clout upon a hole is gude gentry, clout upon a clout is gude yeoary

”Facetiously spoken to those who quarrel with a patch about you”--_Kelly_

Coet bread and cheese

Spoken sarcastically of those who invite every person indiscrio day, God send Sunday

”Spoken to lazy, unconscionable servants, who only es”--_Kelly_