251. Our enemies[1] the Redshanks, or Goblan Marrey (the Scotch Highlanders).
60a. You must summer and winter a stranger before you can form an opinion of him (see Caution).
197b. The Manx and Scotch will come so near as to throw their beetles at one another (see Industrial Objects and Places).
93. — Persons.
252. Duke of Atholl, King of Man,
- Is the greatest man in all the lan' (see Rulers).
253. God keep the house and all within
- From Cut Mac Cullock and all his kin (The Poor Manxman's Prayer).[2]
254. God keep the good corn, the sheep, and the bullock
- From Satan, from sin, and from Cutlar Mac Cullock (The Rich Manxman's Prayer).[3]
186b. Ny three geayghyn s'feayrey dennee Fion Mc Cooil,
- Geay henneu as geay huill,
- As geay fo ny shiauihll =
- The three coldest winds that Fion Mc Cooil felt,
- Wind from a thaw and wind from holes,
- And wind from under the sails (see Weather Wisdom).
237b. Raad mooar Ree Gorree = The highway of King Orry[4] (see Rulers and The Stars).
- ↑ Of the Highlanders the Manx were formerly very suspicious.
- ↑ Cutlar MacCullock was a powerful Gallovidian rover, who made repeated incursions into the Island about the year 1507, and carried off all that he could lay hands upon.
- ↑ Cutlar MacCullock was a powerful Gallovidian rover, who made repeated incursions into the Island about the year 1507, and carried off all that he could lay hands upon.
- ↑ The Manx name for the " Milky Way". Orry, on landing in the Island, being asked whence he came, is said to have pointed to the "Milky Way" as the road to his country.
Note. —The numbers of the sub-heads correspond with those in the Table. Every proverb (except those marked *) has its own serial number, which is retained when repeated, the first repetition being marked a, the second b and so on.
It might, however, have been sufficient to quote only the numbers
of the proverbs where they appear under more than one head, but, as