Crossword-Solution: SPEIR 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dear Enemy: I am sending herewith (under separate cover) Sammy Speir, who got mislaid when you paid your morning visit.

They thought King James and a’ his men Had won the house wi bow and speir; It was but twenty Scots and ten That put a thousand in sic a stear! Wi coulters, and wi fore-hammers, We garrd the bars bang merrilie, Until we came to the inner prison, Where Willie o Kinmont he did lie.

But it wad be a scunnerfu’ thing to tak the len’ o’ buiks frae ye, an’ speir quest’ons at ye ’at I canna mak oot mysel’, an’ syne gang awa despisin’ ye i’ my hert for cruelty an’ wrang.

But that’s neither here nor there; I maun live; I hae nae ch’ice; I didna mak mysel’, an’ I’m no gaein’ to meddle wi’ mysel’! I think mair o’ mysel’ nor daur that! “But there’s ae queston I maun sattle afore I gang farther--an’ that’s this: am I to be less or mair nor I was afore? It’s agreed I canna be the same: if I canna be the same, I maun aither be less or greater than I was afore: whilk o’ them is ’t to be? I winna hae that queston to speir mair nor ance! I’ll be mair nor I was.

But I s’ come to the table.--Wud ye alloo me to speir efter yer name, sir?” “My name’s Donal Grant,” replied Donal.