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argumontative person was described as a "thragh." "Grahill" was the term applied to a cantankerous, ill-tempered individual. "Gauldrifed" referred to a person abnormally sensitive to cold. A "Skible" was an unreliable, erratic person. A Silly, featherbrsined type was labeled a "kithardy."

I cannot vouch for the spelling that I have given those words, but I am sure that it is far wide of the letter arrangement a Gaelic dictionary would show. I have yet to see a Gaelic word that bears the slightest resemblance to its pronunciation. For example, the term "ceilidh" -- meaning a neighborly evening call, a visit of a few days, or a ma jor social event -- is pronounced "kaley." I had heard it used numberless times but, until I saw it in Walter Shaw's Tell Me The Teles, I hadn't the slightest idea of its correct spelling. To a visitor who got up to leave after an unusually short stay, the host was likely to say: "Oh, sit down and make your kaley. It's only the shank of the evening." A departing caller who | *. lingered at the door overlong was said to be making a "standing kaley."

keference has been made to the roistering at New Haven Corner during the Christmas season, by home-bound farmers after-a market day in the city. Here, at other times, younger adults demonstrated their strength and skill in wrestling matches which sometimes ended in loss of tempers and fist fights. Actual combat was usually preceded by a warning from one or the other to his opponent. A potential gladiator was heard to shout: "Keep away from me, Dougal! I'm as strong as a bool, an! I'm as soople as a wildcat!"

Another phrased it this way: "Watch yourself, Pat! I'm as soon as - lightnin'." Still another, obviously carrying an over-infusion of illicit firewater, described his powers in these words: "I can beat any man my size, even though he be so big as the Market House!" |

But the prize utterance came from a battler who had picked an antagonist of vastly superior ability to his own. Sent to the ground for a third

time with a haymaker to tho jaw, he sat up and called to a spectator: "Hold