Part 59 (1/2)

”It's a bauld ask--”Anither pint,” quo' Lesley

This saying has nothing to recommend it but its antiquity It expresses the reluctance of a convivial party to break up

”'Hout, awa, Inverashalloch,' said Galbraith;--'Mind the auld saw, ask--Anither pint, quo'

Lesley;--we'll no start for anither chappin'”--_Rob Roy_

It's a cauld sta hets on

It's dry tale that disna end in a drink

It's a far cry to Lochow

That any speaking or application is useless The person addressed either will not or cannot hear

It's a friend that ruses you

It's a gude goose that draps aye

It's a gude ude poor man's blade; it will bend ere it break

”Spoken of an ill-tempered knife, that will stand as it is bent, or the like”--_Kelly_

It's a gude tongue that says nae ill, but a better heart that thinks nane

It's a gude tree that has neither knap nor gaw

That is, a good thing that is without fault

It's a gude enough warld if it haud

A jocular reply to those who coude warld, but it's ill divided

”It's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep at tis are shar'd,-- How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And kenna hoair't”--_Burns_

It's a gude warld, but they're ill that are in't

It's a gude wood that hath ne'er a withered branch in it

It's a laet it aff

In allusion to the unconscious contraction of bad habits