77 61. "A leader or fugle -man — " Check yourself " (take back out of yourself, reduce yourself). You would say that to a man working in advance of you. " That is a great check, reverse to him," you would say of one who came down in the world." 62. "Do not put any water into that basin. You will wet the wall and every place." 63. One of the many superstitions which help to prevent people from breaking the Sabbath. " Any one drowned with any (clothes) of Sunday's washing on him is never found." The conditional is always used in such statements, being equivalent to " if anyone were drowned," or '* whoever be drowned." 64. "That boat is condemned, is unseaworthy." So, too, acá An CBAc fin Ó cion. This phrase is in common use. ó cion, " removed from esteem, repute." 60. Note the reply ni hiongnAX) -ouic, " don't mention it." To serve you as I have served you is no wonder, you are so deserving 67. "A steady head disentangles thread, deals with a complication. 08. In trniAji nA liAimtéif e is also heard, " in the trough, or slough, of misfortune." 69. " An ill housewife makes many journeys," lit, is " often down " to fetch something which she has forgotten. 70. " Eagerness to win is the gamester's undoing." 71. A chant for All Hallow's Eve. Recited by boys who go about begging alms half in jest, on All Hallow's Eve. All such pieces should be learned by rote : — "To-night is All Hallow Eve, O Mongo, O Mango. A wisp in the windows. Let the doors be closed. Arise, O woman of the house, retire in meekness, return with plenty. Bring with you a hunk of bread [and butter], the colour of your cheek, high as a hare's-leap, and a cock's stride (high) of butter on it. Bring me a noggin of thick, rich, sweet milk (a noggin) wherein there shall be new milk at its edge and cream at its top, so that it may go in hills and come in mountains, and that you'd think it would suffocate me, and my long loss ! there'd be no fear for me. Milk of the clots, ill is the food 'twould be, only that it might "make a drink for the fever- stricken. It (the milk) spent three days and three nights in the tub of the iron hoops, until my two eyes saw the grey moss through it (in it). Through excess of greed for butter, the women worked ruin on it." You cannot expect close sense in such pieces. The " going in hills and coming in mountains," probably refers
