"Who is it that speirs?" he said.

" "Oh, dinna speir, dinna speir mistress," exclaimed the chiel a' in a curfuffle, "ainly for the loe of heav'n, hide me frae the red coats whilk are comin' beliveO God, they are here," he cried, as I entered the shealing, and uttering a piercing skirl, he sprung till the wa', and thrawing aff his cloak, drew his broad claymore, whilk glittered fearsome by the low o' the ingle.

" "Oh, dinna speir, dinna speir mistress," exclaimed the chiel a' in a curfuffle, "ainly for the loe of heav'n, hide me frae the red coats whilk are comin' beliveO God, they are here," he cried, as I entered the shealing, and uttering a piercing skirl, he sprung till the wa', and thrawing aff his cloak, drew his broad claymore, whilk glittered fearsome by the low o' the ingle.

" "Ay, then, lad, gae your ways in an' speir for the Shirra.

SEE Speir, F. Leslie.

Bessie Sparkes Eagles & Dorothy Sparkes Primrose (C); 17Jul69; R465342. SPEIR, F. LESLIE.

SPEIRS, EMMA THOMPSON WHIPPLE.

Emma T. Whipple Speirs (A); 6Oct69; R469173.

SEE SPEIRS, EMMA THOMPSON WHIPPLE.

SEE Speir, F. Leslie.

Bessie Sparkes Eagles & Dorothy Sparkes Primrose (C); 17Jul69; R465342. SPEIR, F. LESLIE.

SPEIRS, EMMA THOMPSON WHIPPLE.

Emma T. Whipple Speirs (A); 6Oct69; R469173.

SEE SPEIRS, EMMA THOMPSON WHIPPLE.

It's me they speir for, but Gavinia she just shoves me out o' sight, and says she, 'Leave them to me.'

It was a very wise-like thing o' you to speir the woman's name.

His suspicions had to find vent in words: "You dinna speir wha the women-folk are?" "No." "Do you think I'm just pretending they're there?" Aaron asked apprehensively.

Forgive me, Grizel; I think I'll be stepping"; and then when he got as far as the door he would say, "I canna do 't, Grizel; I'm just terrible wae for the woman (if sic a woman there be), but I canna think ill o' him; you mauna speir it o' me.

Did ye no speir at Macgreegor aboot her?' 'Oh, man!

But he quietly added, "Ay, ay, minister; an' if ony are speirs for me, the servants maun be sure to say, Oh, the Doctor's in the stable, or the Doctor's in the kitchen, or the Doctor's in the garden or the field."

Mony ane speirs the gate he kens fu' weel.

There was a certain "Daft Will Speir," who was a privileged haunter of Eglinton Castle and grounds.

"Weel, hoo the deil do ye ken whether this be the road or no?" This same "Daft Will Speir" was passing the minister's glebe, where haymaking was in progress.

Speir, daft Will, and Earl of Eglinton.

Speir, daft Will, answer to master about his dinner.