nd your shoon and sort your thack.

"When the new moon is in such a part of the ecliptic as to appear
turned much over upon her back, wet weather is expected."--_Robert
Chambers._

The book o' may-be's is very braid.

The breath o' a fause friend's waur than the fuff o' a weasel.

The cart doesna lose its errand when it comesna hame toom-tail.

"To come back toom-tail is to go away with a load and come back
empty."--_Jamieson._

The proverb is applied to those who accomplish more than their
errand.

The cat kens whase lips she licks.

The cat's oot o' the pock.

The cause is gude, and the word's "fa' tae."

A profane grace of hungry persons who sit down to a good meal.

The clartier the cosier.

Literally, the dirtier the more comfortable. Whether true or not we
cannot say.

The cost owergangs the profit.

The cow may dee ere the grass grow.

"While the grass is growing the steed is starving."--_German._

The cow may want her tail yet.

"You may want my kindness hereafter, though you deny me yours just
now."--_Kelly._

The cow that's first up gets the first o' the dew.

Used as an incentive to diligence and industry.

"The early bird catches the worm."--_English._

The cure may be waur than the disease.

The day has een, the night has lugs.

Prudence and caution are necessary at all times.

The day you do weel there will be seven munes in the lift and ane on the
midden.

The inference is, that the person addressed has a very remote chance
indeed of ever doing well.

The death o' ae bairn winna skail a house.

The death o' his first wife made sic a hole in his heart that a' the
lave slippit easily through.

"It is supposed that he who has lost the wife of his youth and love
will easily bear the loss of a second or third, who are commonly
married rather for convenience than love."--_Kelly._

The deil and the dean begin wi' ae letter; when the deil gets the dean
the kirk will be better.

The deil aye drives his hogs to an ill market.

The deil bides his time.

The deil doesna aye show his cloven cloots.

The deil gaes awa when he finds the door steekit against him.

The deil gaes ower Jock Wabster.

"The deil gaes ower Jock Wabster, hame grows hell;
And Pate misca's ye mair nor tongue can tell."--_Gentle Shepherd._

The deil gae wi' ye and a sixpence, and ye'll neither want money n