Part 56 (1/2)

”'You have made a most excellent and useful purchase, Cuddie But what is that portmanteau?' 'The pockmantle?' answered Cuddie: 'It was Lord Evandale's yesterday, and it's yours the day I fand it ahint the bush o' broo says,

”'”Take turn about, mither,” quo' Tam o' the Linn'”--_Old Mortality_

Ilka land has its ain land-law

”Jeannie Deans, writing from London to Reuben Butler, says,--'Ye will think I am turned waster, for I wear clean hose and shoon every day; but it's the fashi+on here for decent bodies, and ilka land has its ain land-law'”--_Heart of Midlothian_

Ilka land has its ain leid

”Leid,” language--_Jamieson_

Ilka man as he likes--I'ate

”'Oh but, sir, what seems reasonable to your honour will certainly be the same to them,' answered Jeanie 'I do not know that,' replied the Duke; 'ilka ate--you know our old Scots proverb?'”--_Heart of Midlothian_

Ill bairns are aye best heard at ha nae sandy mills wi' you

Or I will not join with you in any project

Ill co, ”Misfortunes never cole” In this case it is reat reater one

Ill counsel will gar a man stick his ain mare

I'll do as the man did when he sell't his land

”That is, I will not do it again, for selling of an estate is a fault that few are twice guilty of”--_Kelly_

Ill doers are aye ill dreaders

Ill flesh ne'er ood soup; or, a bad ar hi that a person will be coarters bind his ain hose

”That is, what expense his business requires I will take it out of his own ar ye blairt wi' baith your een

I'll gar ye clahere its no yeuky

”Ye bardy loon, gae but the house and ht; but if it wasna ar baith you and them clahere it's no yeuky”--_Sir Andrew Wylie_