199. Cha dooar rieau drogh veaynee corran mie — A bad reaper never got a good sickle.
200. T'ou towse e arroo liorish dty hubbag hene = Thou art measuring his corn by thy own bushel.
201. Jean traagh choud as ta'n ghrian soilshean = Make hay while the sun shines (see The Sun).
203. Ta'n losh da'n furriman = "Strike the foreman."[1]
203. Laa'l Parick arree yn dow gys e staik as y dooinney gys e lhiabbee = St. Patrick's Day [March 17], the ox to his stall and the man to his bed (see Animals and Saints' Days).
204. Cha nee yn wooa smoo eieys smoo vlieaunys = It is not the cow which lows most that will milk the most (see Animals).
161a. Cadlee ny moddee tra ta ny mraane creearey = Dogs will sleep when the women are sifting (see Womankind and Animals).
184a. Laa'l Paul ghorrinagh gheayee,
- Ghenney er y theihll as baase mooar sleih ;
- Laa'l Paul aalin as glen
- Palchey er y theihll dy arroo as meinn =
- St. Paul's Day [January 25th] tempestuous and windy,
- Scarcity in the world and great mortality ;
- St. Paul's Day fine and clear,
- Plenty in the world of corn and meal (see Weather Wisdom and Holy Days).
190a. Tra heidys Avril bing e chayrn,
- 'Sy theihll vees palchey traagh as oarn =
- When April shall shrilly blow his horn,
- In the world will be plenty of hay and barley (see Weather Wisdom and Seasons).
193a. Ta'n vry erskyn y churnaght = The malt is better than the wheat (see Industrial Objects).
- *Verryms bai da'n chreeagh = I will give an opposite (or contrary) throw to the furrow (giving a Roland for an Oliver).
- ↑ When the "gart" (or last reaper) has cut down his rig before the head reaper, the rest cry out "Strike the foreman". (Manx Miscellany, vol. xvi, p. 28.)
