Crossword-Solution: BAWBEES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Better for her to hae been born a cripple, and carried frae door to door, like auld Bessie Bowie, begging bawbees, than to be a king's daughter, fiddling and flinging the gate she did.

Better for her to hae been born a cripple, and carried frae door to door, like auld Bessie Bowie, begging bawbees, than to be a kingís daughter, fiddling and flinging the gate she did.

Fothergill West of Branksome, who would come if he was required, ought tae be able tae show a bauld face--what think ye?” “'Deed, sir,” I says, “feastin' is aye better than fechtin'--but if ye'll raise me a pund a month, I'll no' shirk my share o' either.” “We won't quarrel ower that,” says he, and agreed tae the extra twal' pund a year as easy as though it were as many bawbees.

Shrill demands of “Toss, toss!” rent the air every time Jess' head showed on the window-blind, and Andra hoped, as I pushed open the door, “that I hadna forgotten my bawbees.” Weddings were celebrated among the Auld Lichts by showers of ha'pence, and the guests on their way to the bride's house had to scatter to the hungry rabble like housewives feeding poultry.

And yet, as Greaves afterwards learned, this same man came to Canada a poor, bare-footed, Scotch lad, with a father whose only fortune was an old fiddle, and that inexorable but praiseworthy characteristic of his country--a determination to collect the bawbees at whatever shrine first presented itself on the shores of the New World.