Crossword-Solution: BAILY 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The news is, that after Miss Everdene got home she went out again to see all was safe, as she usually do, and coming in found Baily Pennyways creeping down the granary steps with half a bushel of barley.

Well, he’s turned out neck and crop, and my question is, who’s going to be baily now?” The question was such a profound one that Henery was obliged to drink there and then from the large cup till the bottom was distinctly visible inside.

What with this trouble about the baily, and now about the girl, mis’ess is almost wild.” They all hastened up the rise to the farm-house, excepting the old maltster, whom neither news, fire, rain, nor thunder could draw from his hole.

Those of the farmers with whom she had no dealings (by far the greater part) were continually asking each other, “Who is she?” The reply would be,— “Farmer Everdene’s niece; took on Weatherbury Upper Farm; turned away the baily, and swears she’ll do everything herself.” The other man would then shake his head.

Such is my spirit when I have a mind!” “A true man, and proud as a Lucifer.” “You see the artfulness? Why, ’twas about being baily really; but I didn’t put it so plain that she could understand my meaning, so I could lay it on all the stronger.