Crossword-Solution: MUTTONS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

CHAPTER 22 I Return to My Muttons AFTER twenty-one years' absence, I felt a very strong desire to see the river again, and the steamboats, and such of the boys as might be left; so I resolved to go out there.

Now, to return to our muttons--a figure which you will appreciate--I may now be regarded, I think, as this young lady's legal guardian; although I have not had the honour of being formally appointed such.

Pray you, tell me this, If he should break his day, what should I gain By the exaction of the forfeiture? A pound of man’s flesh, taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.

You may take out my bunch of muttons--there are only eight hundred of 'em--in the morning, if you like.

Ogden,' says I, 'being only your sheep-herder; but under more expeditious circumstances we might have been.' "'Forget the sheep temporarily, I beg,' says Ogden, 'and cut for deal.' "About four days afterward, while my muttons was nooning on the water-hole and I deep in the interstices of making a pot of coffee, up rides softly on the grass a mysterious person in the garb of the being he wished to represent.