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Fine feathers mak tine birds. Fire an water are gude servants, but bod mas-

ters.

First come first sair’d.

Fla.es and a girning wife are waukrife bed-

Fellows.

Fools should na hae chappin’-sticks.

Fools mak feast and wise fouk eat them ;

The w:8e mak jests, and fools repeat them.

For fashion’s sake, as dogs gang to market. Foul water sleekens fire. Fresh fish and poor friends grow soon ill far’d Fumblers are ay fond o' weans.

G

Gie you an inch ye'll tak an ell. Glasses and lasses are bruckle ware. Gie the deil his due God help rich fouk the poor can beg. God send you mair wit and me mair filler. Gut nae fish till ye get them.

H

Hae will gar a deaf man hear. Hame is hame if it were ne'er sae hamely. Hang a thief when he's young and he’ll no

steal when he’s auld.