Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Hedge

A low hedge is easily leaped over.

Better shelter under an old hedge than a young furze bush.

Hedges have eyes and walls have ears.

Hedges have no eyes but they have ears.Italian.

It is good sheltering under an old hedge.

One briar does not make a hedge.Italian.

The figs on the far side of the hedge are sweeter.Servian.

Where the hedge is lowest every one goes over.Italian, German, Dutch.

Where the hedge is lowest, the devil leaps over.German.