Crossword-Solution: GRIG 4 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Have you one of those rare and valuable curiosities called a spunk, Mr McCaskie?” He was a merry little grig of a man, and he babbled on, till I announced my intention of going to bed.

But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a grig, the King’s daughter fretted all day, thinking of the indignity that had been done her in making her marry Martin, the poor widow’s son, instead of a rich young Prince from a foreign country.

The archer, however, who had drunk more than any man in the room, was as merry as a grig, and having kissed the matron and chased the maid up the ladder once more, he went out to the brook, and came back with the water dripping from his face and hair.

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1905 * * * * * ‘IF you talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, gentlemen,’ said the lamplighter who was in the chair, ‘I mean to say that neither of ’em ever had any more to do with the stars than Tom Grig had.’ ‘And what had _he_ to do with ’em?’ asked the lamplighter who officiated as vice.

This being exactly what the chairman wanted, he mused for a little time, performed that agreeable ceremony which is popularly termed wetting one’s whistle, and went on thus: ‘Tom Grig, gentlemen, was, as I have said, one of us; and I may go further, and say he was an ornament to us, and such a one as only the good old times of oil and cotton could have produced.