Part 69 (2/2)

Like draws aye to like, like an auld horse to a fell dike

Persons of similar tastes draards and sympathize with each other ”Like will to like--a scabbed horse and a sandy dike”--_Danish_ ”Like will to like, as the devil said to the coal-burner”--_German_

Like hens, ye rin aye to the heap

Spoken jocularly to those who help themselves to what there is most of on the table

Like Hilton kirk, baith narrow and mirk, and can only haud its ain parish folk

”Hilton kirk was a very small edifice in Berwickshi+re, and it would seehted When any nuers ca is used when many persons assemble in a small house, and there is little rooton's mare, ye break brawly aff, but sune set up

Likely lies i' thethat s which proreat hopes are entertained are successfully carried through

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Like Moses' breeks, neither shape, forude to eat nor creesh woo

”Ain these words co that is useful no way”--_Kelly_

Like paddy's ghost, twa steps ahint

Like's an illither folk's sheep

Like the bairns o' Falkirk, they'll end ere theypersons, as expressive of there being no hope of them How the children of Falkirk came to be so characterized, it would be difficult now to ascertain The adage has had the effect of causing the men of Falkirk jocularly to style themselves 'the bairns;' and when one of them speaks of another as 'a bairn,' he only means that that other person is a native of Falkirk”--_Robert Chambers_

Like the cat, fain fish wad ye eat, but ye are laith to weet your feet

”The cat is fain the fish to eat, but hath no will to wet her feet”--_English_

”Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' like the poor cat i' the adage”--_Macbeth_