Jhon Crab, that had hys Geer all yar In hys fagalds has set the fyr, And our the wall syne gan thai wyr, And brynt the sow till brands bar.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Write it down, boys, just as he wrote it, ill spelling and all, so that you may see what he was doing and what he was thinking part of the time at least: "'To-day I had the raw-hides put in the water in order to cut them in throngs proper for lashing the packages and forming the necessary Geer for pack horses, a business which I fortunately had not to learn on this occasion.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough
John Geer who ran the missionary mill, and taught the heathen to put their pennies in the plate and wear pants-not that they ever did the last to any alarming extent, except in the annual reports that were sent back to be printed East; while Mrs. Geer she homeopathed the island and inculcurated the principles of female virtoo in the young.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne