Crossword-Solution: OONT 4 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Wot makes the rear-guard swear so 'ard when night is drorin' in, An' every native follower is shiverin' for 'is skin? It ain't the chanst o' being rushed by Paythans from the 'ills, It's the commissariat camel puttin' on 'is bloomin' frills! O the oont, O the oont, O the hairy scary oont! A-trippin' over tent-ropes when we've got the night alarm! We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole an' 'eads 'im off in front, An' when we've saved 'is bloomin' life 'e chaws our bloomin' arm.

The ancient contrivance, a cylinder of wood, could only be placed in position by a practised hand, and from his experience in this the mole-catcher--locally called "oont-catcher"-- used to be an important personage in his way.

Later on I called him Pileser on account of his shouk; but my coachwan, a strong, masterless man, called him "_haramzada chor, shaitan ké bap_" and "_oont ki beta_." He certainly was a powerful horse, being full fifteen-two at the withers, with the girth of a waler, and at first the docility of an Arab.

You remember Kipling’s famous verses about the ‘’oont, the commissariat ’oont?’” “No,” honestly answered Perry, “I don’t.” “Learn them when you get home,” advised the professor, “there’s probably a copy in the hotel library.

Dear me, I’ll nefer get my work done to-day between te togs, te letters oont, Meester Topp’s whims, oont twins, oont sooch like.