Crossword-Solution: AMPER 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But if you speak up, I'll keep you till the next bunch of mounted police come by." "Well, Gawd blime me, if this ain't a go! 'Ere I be, innercent as a lamb, an' 'ere you be, lost all o' your top 'amper an' out o' your reckonin', run me foul an' goin' to rake me into 'ell-fire.

You see, me gone, there's nothing to 'amper 'er--nothing to interfere with 'er settling down as a quiet, respectable toff.

There will be no room to tread then, if you like!" He turned towards the door as he spoke, and Mrs Thornton hastily smoothed her hair as it opened wide, and Mary's eager voice announced-- "If you please, mum, a 'amper!" "A _what_?" The vicar and his wife pressed forward eagerly, and, lo! on the well- worn oilcloth of the passage lay a large wicker hamper, addressed to "Mrs Thornton, The Vicarage, Raby," and bearing on the label the name of a well-known London fruiterer.

When I turn over their dreary pages I find myself humming Kipling's chorus-- And it all goes into the laundry, But it never comes out in the wash, 'Ow we're sugared about by the old men ('Eavy sterned amateur old men!) That 'amper an' 'inder an' scold men For fear o' Stellenbosh.