Crossword-Solution: CARRT 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Give me a rag an' a bit o' that stinkin' cookin'-grease, an' make room on the carrt till I do up me house-cleanin'." You Han grinned and began to wail an interminable song about a girl called "Little Fat Spring Fragrance," who lived in the "Village of the Wise and Benevolent Magistrate." The ballad rose shriller as the singer saw the corporal swinging along ahead, his rifle nestling on his squared shoulder as if it had come home to its own, his back as flat as a board.

You Han was even more jubilant when his master spun on his heel, and shouted with the rasp of the drill-ground in his voice: "Shut up that racket! It's worse 'n the carrt axle." The bracing wind swept keen out of the Siberian north, and sunshine flooded from a cloudless sky.

You Han was surrounded by a group of voluble citizens who urged waiting two days until a new axle could be hewn from the solid tree; but the deserter exploded the conference by shouting: "Dump the carrt here.

Like chickens an' silk over-coats, my son? We're goin' hell-bent for the comforts of life by the carrt-load." You Han talked to the mule in encouraging whistles and replied, "Can do," to the monologue of the corporal, who rambled on: "Say, thim kids did me more good than a barrel o' monkeys.