Crossword-Solution: SHOPMAN 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

When a child or a servant buys something in a shop--or even the mayor or the governor, for aught I know--he finishes the operation by saying-- 'Give me something for lagniappe.' The shopman always responds; gives the child a bit of licorice-root, gives the servant a cheap cigar or a spool of thread, gives the governor--I don't know what he gives the governor; support, likely.

Yet -- in a room above the store There is a woman -- and a child Pattered just now across the floor; The shopman looked at him and smiled.

The labour of making a few large contracts is sufficient to give a clue for finding the fair market value of the goods sold throughout the country; but in Turkey, from the primitive habits of the people, and partly from the absence of great capital and great credit, the importing merchant, the warehouseman, the wholesale dealer, the retail dealer, and the shopman, are all one person.

And I can tell if a single book is missing--and I wouldn't trust any shopman I ever knew to do that.” “Oh of course, you're an exception,” he admitted, under a sense of justice.

The shopman (he knows my friend) was naturally a little staggered at first; but, quickly recovering himself, and feeling that something ought to be done to encourage this sort of thing, asked our hero if he would like to see some fine old carved oak.