Crossword-Solution: INKSHED 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The window of the room which is principally devoted to my deeds of inkshed looks upon a point where four roads meet, on three of which are omnibus routes.

Even on gentlemen guiltless of inkshed, the exercise of hospitality upon this sort of scale is found to impose a heavy tax; few of them, nowadays, think of maintaining it for any large portion of the year: very few indeed below the highest rank of the nobility--in whose case there is usually a staff of led-captains, led-chaplains, servile dandies, and semi-professional talkers and jokers from London, to take the chief part of the burden.

Forty boys are droning away at their tasks on a bright sunshiny morning in June, and I am sitting at an old oak desk, begrimed and splashed with the inkshed of many generations, and hacked by the knives of idler after idler for the last fifty years.

Inkshed, not bloodshed, is my only danger--my greatest failing is a propensity (I fear) to digress and enlarge, till I may not bring the numbers of my muster-roll within proper discipline.

All this inkshed promised an exploit for invading Canada from the upper end of the Niagara, between Fort Erie and Chippewa.