Crossword-Solution: FROOT 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Its chief duty, however, was to watch the "froot and vegebles" at night and to keep all robbers--two-foot, four-foot, winged, or wriggling robbers--from what Aunt Emily called "destroying everything." A source of wonder to the children, this competent official was at the same time something of an enigma to the elders.

And look, in John's book--here he says 'I found a verry excellent froot resembling the read Current,' What was it--the Sarvice berry? He says it is 'about the Common hight of a wild Plumb.' Nothing escaped these chaps--geography, natural history, game, Indians, or anything else! They must have worked every minute of the day." "I think his new berry was what we used to call the buffalo berry, in our railway surveys out West," said Uncle Dick.