Crossword-Solution: CARMELO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Sparicio and his hired boy Carmelo had been walking backward and forward for hours overhead,--urging the vessel yard by yard, with long poles, through the slime of canals and bayous.

The pleasant scent of hot coffee greeted him;--Carmelo was handing him the tin cup containing it, down through the hatchway.

Carmelo, as he crouched at the tiller, was singing, in a low, clear alto, some tristful little melody.

Then, wishing to divert the fisherman's attention to another theme, he asked what was Carmelo singing.

All the roughness of the man was gone! To Julien's startled fancy, the fishers had ceased to be;--lo! Carmelo was a princely page; Sparicio, a king! How perfectly their voices married together!--they sang with passion, with power, with truth, with that wondrous natural art which is the birthright of the rudest Italian soul.