Crossword-Solution: SIDS 4 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Sometimes he stood at the back of a baker’s oven, for he knew all the haunts of heat about the city; sometimes he buried himself in the sids (_husks of oats_) lying ready to feed the kiln of a meal-mill; sometimes he lay by the furnace of the steam-engine of the water-works.

This was thought so reasonable, yt when ye greatest of you in adventure (whom we have much cause to respecte), when he propounded conditions to us freely of his owne accorde, he set this downe for one; a coppy wherof we have sent unto you, with some additions then added by us; which being liked on both sids, and a day set for ye paimente of moneys, those in Holland paid in theirs.

Seeing myselfe compassed round about by a multitude of dogges, or rather devils, that rose from the grasse, rushesse, and bushesse, I shott my gunne, whether un warrs or purposly I know not, but I shott with a pistolle confidently, but was seised on all sids by a great number that threw me downe, taking away my arme without giving mee one blowe; ffor afterwards I felt no paine att all, onely a great guidinesse in my heade, from whence it comes I doe not remember.

Naturally the grown-up generation of Berts and Sids, the voters and householders, do not realise, still less admit, that it was they who called the tune to which the politicians danced.

Now this Sid worship, we are told by Irish scholars, "had nothing to do with Druidism--in fact, was quite opposed to it," the Sids and the Druids being "frequently found at variance with each other in respect to mortals."[471] This is the commencing point of the evidence which proves Druidism to have belonged to the pre-Celtic people, though finding an adopted home among them.