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"Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop."

"Drive away nature, and back it comes at a gallop." This line is very commonly attributed to Boileau, but erroneously. The author of it is Chaulieu (?). The Orientals ascribe to Mahomet the saying, "Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their places, but believe not that men change their dispositions."

Cat after kind.

"What is born of a hen will scrape" (Italian).ssss1 "What is born of a cat will catch mice" (French, Italian).ssss1 This proverb is taken from the fable of a cat transformed into a woman, who scandalised her friends by jumping from her seat to catch a mouse. "A good hound hunts by kind" (French).ssss1 "It is kind father to him," as the Scotch say. "Good blood cannot lie" (French);ssss1 its generous instincts are sure to display themselves on fit occasions. On the other hand, "The son of an ass brays twice a day."ssss1 We need not say what people that stroke of grave humour belongs to.

Drive a cow to the ha' and she'll run to the byre.