Crossword-Solution: ESTEP 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Old Brother Estep, in his enthusiasm on such occasions sometimes "stretched his blanket." It was his glory to get up a sensation among the brethren.

Abe said to him one day: "Billy, you ought to stop gambling with Estep." Billy made a lame excuse: "I'm ninety cents behind, and I can't quit until I win it back." "I'll help you get that back," urged Lincoln, "if you'll promise me you won't gamble any more." The youth reflected a moment and made the required promise.

Now, when Estep comes again, you draw him on by degrees, and finally bet him one of these hats that I can lift a forty-gallon barrel of whisky and take a drink out of the bunghole." Billy agreed, and the two clerks chuckled as they fixed the barrel so that the bunghole would come in the right place to win the bet, though the thing seemed impossible to Greene himself.

Estep's battery came up in due time, and taking a position on a little rise of ground in the rear of the 26th Ohio, and 3d Kentucky, opened a terrific fire of shot and shell over the heads of our infantry.

Gross' brigade, which was on the right of the 26th Ohio, so that its line of battle was more nearly perpendicular to the railroad, and so its fire would sweep the front of the 26th Ohio, and 58th Indiana, and supported the 6th Ohio with Estep's battery on a little eminence to its right, and brought the 97th Ohio, Col.