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"I think I'm better, but I'm awfu' licht i' the heid yet," says Bawbie. "Ye micht get the pen an' ink, Sandy, an' send a scart or twa to thae prenter bodies. Juist say I've taen a kind o' a dwam, but that I'll likely be a' richt again in a day or twa. An' see an' watch your spellin'. Gin ony o' the wirds are like to beat ye, juist speer at me, an' I'll gie ye a hand wi' them."
A man tells you, 'if you can speer it, to send a beerer with a bottle of bare, and the clergyman excruciates you by praying in church, 'Speer us, good Lord. The English pronunciation of A and E is in most words transposed. Barbados has a considerable number of provincialisms of dialect.
"You have got an ague! Your teeth are chattering!" said Mr. Scott, stooping over her. "Keep awa' frae me! Dinna come nigh me!" she cried, cuddling down closer under the clothing. She had not yet uncovered her face or looked at him. "What is the meaning of all this, Rose?" he inquired, in a tone of displeasure. "Speer that question to yoursel'! no' to me!" she answered, shuddering.
'81 was the year so many Divinity students played on the Varsity: Hector Cowan the great tackle, Dick Hodge the strategist, Sam Hodge, Bob Speer, and I think Irvine; men all, who as McCready Sykes said, "Feared God and no one else." Hector Cowan is considered one of the best tackles that ever wore the Orange and Black jersey. While rough, he was never a dirty player.
Some o' them, the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had been put on board by a queer lookin' old man just before we had started frae London. I had seen them speer at the fellow, and put out their twa fingers when they saw him, to guard them against the evil eye. Man! but the supersteetion of foreigners is pairfectly rideeculous!
At first, he came with a quantity of worsted, "to see if she would knit a pair of stockings for him;" next, he "came to see if she would darn the heels of a pair of stockings;" and, by and by, he sometimes ventured to "come owre, just to speer for her."
I began to understand that "Minnesota" was not a bluff but a wide land of romance, a prairie, peopled with red men, which lay far beyond the big river. And then, one day, I heard my father read to my mother a paragraph from the county paper which ran like this, "It is reported that Richard Garland has sold his farm in Green's Coulee to our popular grocer, Mr. Speer. Mr.
"Little kens my dame at hame That Whippety Stourie is my name." The lady walked into the cave, and was kindly asked by the wee bodies to take a chair and sit down, while they still continued their spinning. She observed that ilk ane's mouth was thrawn away to ae side, but she didna venture to speer the reason.
And I'm tellin' ye again that it's a bonny world I've seen, but no so bonny a world as we maun make it you and I. So let us speer a wee, and I'll be trying to tell you what I think, and what I've seen. There'll be those going up and doon the land preaching against everything that is, and talking of all that should be.
'Troth can I no; I am a lone woman, for James he's awa to Drumshourloch Fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for my life open the door to ony o' your gang-there-out sort o' bodies. 'But what must I do then, good dame? for I can't sleep here upon the road all night. 'Troth, I kenna, unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the Place.
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