Crossword-Solution: EKKA 4 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Jowala Singh knows and takes care to avoid the three or four ghoul-haunted fields on the outskirts of the village; but he is not urged by millions of devils to run about all day in the sun and swear that his plowshares are the best in the Punjab; nor does Purun Dass fly forth in an ekka more than once or twice a year, and he knows, on a pinch, how to use the railway and the telegraph as well as any son of Israel in Chicago.

The Man took it, went down to the Cart Road at once, found an ekka pony with a blue head-necklace, fastened the Bisara of Pooree inside the necklace with a piece of shoe-string and thanked Heaven that he was rid of a danger.

More corpses; more stretches of moonlit, white road, a string of sleeping camels at rest by the wayside; a vision of scudding jackals; ekka-ponies asleep--the harness still on their backs, and the brass-studded country carts, winking in the moonlight--and again more corpses.

They say that a bullock-cart has been washed down already, and the _ekka_ that went over a half hour before you came has not yet reached the far side.

Needless to say, the ekka, as light as a nutshell, threatened each time to fall with its passenger over the horns of the bullocks.