Crossword-Solution: PUSSYCAT 8 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Only'--with an effort at antiquarianism--'I believe they had croquet.' 'Aunt Ursula says there weren't garden-parties before croquet came in.' 'How dreadful, Ursula! Your name's Ursula, isn't it? Haven't you some jolly little name to go by?' 'Nuttie.' 'Nuttie! That's scrumptious! I'll call you Nuttie, and you may call me Pussycat.' 'That's not so nice as Blanche.' 'Mother won't have me called so when strangers are there, but you aren't a stranger, you know.

His eyes were as useful in the dark as in the light--like a pussycat's; but there was nothing to be seen--not even a potato paring, or a dry crust, or a well-gnawed bone, such as Tiny the terrier sometimes brought into the coal cellar and left on the floor.

That’s what Pussycat saw.” Every evening before bedtime she said the same rhyme, and Harriett asked the same question.

Hannah Maria's getten wed agean; shoo wor as gooid as her word.--shoo wed a local praicher; but as his labours didn't seem to profit him mich, he left th' connexion, an' wi' Hannah Maria's bit o' brass he bowt th' valiation o'th 'Purrin Pussycat' public haase, an' shoo tends th' bar wi' as mich red ribbon flyin raand her heead as ud mak reins for a six-horse team.

Indeed, Jotham noticed a rabbit bounding off among the hummocks of higher ground; and Noodles afterwards declared that he had seen the "cutest little pussycat" ambling away; though the others vowed it must have been a skunk, and gave Noodles fair warning that if ever he tried to catch such a cunning "pussycat" he would be buried up to the neck until his clothes were fumigated.