Crossword-Solution: PAINTPOT 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

And sometimes a painter's heavy paintpot falls--and woe to him who walks under the ladder then, be he the wisest man in the kingdom.

His mood was glad and tender; he no longer thought how he should meet his father; or how he should act in furtherance of his darling wish to turn his back on paintpot and plaster.

Starrie Chase, otherwise Leon, might let his boyish energy leak off as waste steam in planting another thorn in the side of the hard-worked doctor who bore the burdens of half the community, and in persecuting lonely old women, but--he was supposed to know the way to Varney's Paintpot! And the three started along the road to find him.

The woods are a grand old playground!" He led the way, and the four boys followed, jostling each other merrily, rubbing their high spirits together and bringing sparks from the contact--bound for that mysterious forest Paintpot.

Whoever might prove victor, the expedition to Varney's Paintpot would have been abruptly frustrated by a fight among the exploring party, had not Marcoo the tactful interfered.