Mother-in-law.

1. A mother-in-law is like the dry rot : far easier
to get into a house than to get it out again. Punch,

2. If my mother-in-law dies, I will fetch some-
body to flay her. For.

3. Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, — storm and
hail. Ital,

4. My mother-in-law is dead, my hearth is en-
larged. M, Greek.

5. Of all the old women that ever I saw.
Surest bad luck to my mother-in-law.

6. The best mother-in-law is she on whom your
geese feed (on the grass that grows on her grave).

7. The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk. Sp.

8. The gude man's mither is always in the gude
wife's gait (way).

9. The husband's mother is the wife's devil. Ger.

10. The mother-in-law does not remember she
was once daughter-in-law. Sp,^ Par.

11. The mother-in-law must be entreated and the
pot must be let stand. Sp.

12. There is no good mother-in-law, but she that
wears a green gown {the turf of the church-yard),