{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/pt2/pt241.htm","path":"neu/celt/pt2/pt241.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt241.htm","text":"From Hector MacLean, Islay.\n1.\nTHUIRT an luch bheag 's i 'san toll,\n \"D\u00e9 'm fonn a th' air a' chat ghlas?\"\n \"Fonn math is deagh shaod\n Gum faodadh thusa tighinn a mach.\"\n2.\n\"\u2019S mor m' eagal romh na dubhain chrom,\n A th' agad ann am bonn do chas\n Mharbh thu mo phiuthrag an d\u00e9\n 'S fhuair mi fein air eigin as.\"\n3.\nCha mhis' a bha 'sin ach cat mhic Iain Ruaigh\n A b' \u00e0bhaist a bhi ruagadh chearc,\n Ghoid i 'n caise 'bha 's a' chliabh,\n 'S dh'ith i 'n t-iasg a bha 's a' phreas.\"\nTRANSLATION.\nSaid the mousie in the hole,\n \"What is that purr of the grey cat?\"\n \"A good purr and a pleasant mood,\n That thou mightest come out of that.\"\n\"Great is my fear for the crooked hooks\n That thou hast got in the sole of thy feet;\n Thou killedst my sister yesterday,\n And I myself got hardly quit.\"\n\"That was not me, but John Roy's cat,\n That used to be the hen's distress:\n She stole the cheese that was in the creel,\n And ate the fish that was in the press.\"\nThis old rhyme has become proverbial. A part of it was sent as a proverb from Inverary.\nJ. F. C.\n404:1 You speak of Nursery Rhymes. The following is a very trifling one, which I remember myself, and have never been able to forget. HECTOR MACLEAN, Islay.","title":"Popular Tales of the West Highlands Vol. II: XLIX. The Cat and the Mouse","type":"page"}