Crossword-Solution: PUFFER 6 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

OPENING OF THE TALE The tale opens abruptly with an opium-bred vision of the tower of Cloisterham Cathedral, beheld by Jasper as he awakens in the den of the Princess Puffer, between a Chinaman, a Lascar, and the hag herself.

The humblest Indian in the obscurest village on the coast was familiar with the Cerberus, a little black puffer without charm or living accommodation to speak of, whose mission was to creep inshore along the wooded beaches close to mighty ugly rocks, stopping obligingly before every cluster of huts to collect produce, down to three-pound parcels of indiarubber bound in a wrapper of dry grass.

Sometimes it is thought expedient that the puffer should put on a grave face, and utter his panegyric in the form of admonition.

Alexis von Puffer, in his admirable work on San Francisco, accounts for the position of these unfortunate creatures by asserting that the steel cage was originally the frame of a parachute-like garment which distended the skirt, and in the submersion of the city prevented them from sinking.

Puffer PREFACE THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest with that experience unquestioned.