Part 85 (1/2)

Shaude turn

Shaude taste to sweetmeats

She brak her elbow at the kirk door

”Spoken of a thrifty maiden when she becomes a lazy wife”--_Kelly_

She frisks about like a cat's tail i' the sun

She has an ill paut wi' her hind foot

She has gi'en the woab like an auies the touzie drab The tither skelpin' kiss, While she held up her greedy gab Just like an aumos dish”--_Burns_

She hauds up her head like a hen drinking water

The two last sayings are applied to persons who behave in an impudent or forwardup and down yours

”Spoken to dissuade our friend fro a woman e suspect to be too bold”--_Kelly_

She'll wear like a horseshoe, aye the langer the clearer

She lookit at thewoe, of the ”fine et, but who afterwards are allied to common every-day people

She looks as if butter wadna melt in her mou

She looks like a leddy in a landward kirk

This means that a person may appear very conspicuous on account of a peculiar dress or manner

She pined awa like Jenkin's hen

”To die like _Jenkin's hen_ is to die an old maid”--_Jamieson_

She's a bad sitter that's aye in a flutter

She's a drap o' my dearest blude

She's a ife that wats her ain weird

That is, who knows her own destiny