Part 113 (1/2)

Ye're gude to fetch the deil a priest

The two last sayings are applied to persons who take a long ti about which they are sent

Ye're like a bad liver--the last day there's aye irdle

Ye're like an ill shi+lling--ye'll coain

Jocularly addressed to a person who is about to go away

Ye're like a singed cat--better than ye're bonny

Ye're like a Lauderdale bawbee, as bad as bad can be

”The obnoxious Duke of Lauderdale, as at the head of affairs in Scotland's 'persecuting times,' had, it appears, a principal hand in soe The _bawbee_, or halfpenny so issued, soon became base money, and these Lauderdale bawbees were branded with a bad name”--_G Henderson_

Ye're like a rotten nit--no worth cracking for the kernel

Ye're like Macfarlane's geese--ye hae mair mind o' your play than your arden upon the island of Inch-Tavoe Here Jaaled by the chieftain Hiseach other on the loch But when one, which had been brought to table, was found to be tough and ill fed, Jaeese liked their play better than their meat,'--a proverb which has been current ever since”--_Note to The Monastery_

Ye're like a sow--ye'll neither lead nor drive

Ye're like Brackley's tup--ye follow the lave

Ye're like laird Moodie's greyhounds--unco hungry like about the pouch lids

Ye're like me, and I'm nae sma' drink

Ye're like Piper Bennet's bitch--ye lick till ye burst

Ye're like the cooper o' Fogo, ye drive aff better girs than ye ca' on

”Said of those who atte, but who, instead of that, make matters worse”--_G Henderson_

Ye're like the corbie er--ye come wi' neither aleir, Into the air to espy Gif he saw ony mountains dry

Sum sayis the Rauin did furth reane”--_Sir David Lyndsay_

Ye're like the cow-couper o' Swinton, ye'll no slocken

Ye're like the dead folk o' Earlstoun--no to lippen to