=A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well.=
It would seem, too, that he does not know when a thing is ill; for the
French say the English were beaten at Waterloo, but had not the wit to
know it.
=A Scotsman is aye wise ahint the hand.=--_Scotch._
=A Scotsman aye taks his mark frae a mischief.=--_Scotch._
=Scotsmen reckon aye frae an ill hour.=--_Scotch._
That is, they always date from some untoward event. "A Scottish man,"
says James Kelly, "solicited the Prince of Orange to be made an ensign,
for he had been a sergeant ever since his Highness ran away from Groll."
=The Englishman weeps, the Irishman sleeps, but the Scotsman gaes till
he gets it.=--_Scotch._
Such, according to Scotch report, is the conduct of the three when they
want food.
=The Welshman keeps nothing till he has lost it.=--_Welsh._
=The older the Welshman, the more madman.=--_Welsh._
=As long as a Welsh pedigree.=
=The Italianised Englishman is a devil incarnate.=--_Italian._[788]