Crossword-Solution: CROWER 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Your rustic owner, safe at home, Takes all the profits as they come: He sells his capons and his chicks, Or keeps them hanging on his hook, All dress'd and ready for his cook; But I, adept in art and tricks, Should I but catch the toughest crower, Should be brimful of joy, and more.

They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence.

There was Ching Wang in the centre of the group, holding Captain Gillespie's pet gold and silver crower and urging it on to fight one of the other cocks, which the carpenter was officiating for as "bottle holder" in the most scientific way, he apparently being no novice at the cruel sport.

She never said a word, even to my wife; but I could see 't it cut her a good deal--” “But all this time,” said Uncle Silas, “she 's kep' up smart,--allers hed a high crower's-feather 'n her bunnet, and kep' her little boys a-lookin' like nine-shillin' dolls.” “I should n't have ever called David lazy,” said Captain Philo.

Why he is represented with a cock is a disputed point, which is now made clear: next after _gallus gallinaceus_[135] himself, there is no crower like the circle-squarer.