Crossword-Solution: SCALAWAG 8 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

This was on a September morning, two years after the flight, and Eskew, it appears, had been to the State Fair and had beheld many things strangely affirming his constant testimony that this unhappy world increaseth in sin; strangest of all, his meeting with our vagrant scalawag of Canaan.

The old scalawag just closed his eyes and put on one of the softest "sugar-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouth" expressions you ever saw and stood there taking it and asking for more.

Don’t y’u think two big, grown-up men are good to handle that scalawag? Sho! Don’t y’u worry.” “Miss Nora can come, too, if she likes,” suggested he of the Shoshones.

The cat in question was a disreputable old scalawag, with tattered ears and a scarred hide, souvenirs of fights innumerable, with no beauty and less morals, and named, with appropriate fitness, "Cherub." It was a quarter to twelve on a Sunday morning and Jed was preparing his dinner.

And the funny part of it is--” “The funny part of it is,” declared Bangs, drowning his friend's voice by raising his own, “that somebody out there, some scalawag friend of this Thomas, must have got wind of what was up, and sent word to him.