Crossword-Solution: SKIDDY 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

ADVENTURES OF THE SLIDING FOOT STOOL Just because he did not want to be used as a milking stool by the Maiden All Forlorn, Skiddy slid away Christmas eve.

Skiddy, the boyish American consul, expressed himself, "You can't get anybody to do anything these days." Possibly this long spell of monotony contributed to Captain Satterlee's pronounced and instant success.

Captain Satterlee took an immense fancy to this youthful representative of their common country, and treated him with an engaging mixture of respect and paternalism; and Skiddy, not to be behindhand, and dazzled, besides, by his elder's marked regard and friendship, threw wide the consular door, and constantly pressed on Satterlee the hospitality of a cot on the back veranda.

Young Skiddy, on a modest salary of two hundred dollars a month and a house rent-free, was supposed, if need be, to marry you, divorce you, try you for crimes and misdemeanors, and in extreme cases might even dangle you from the flagstaff in his front yard.

Unfortunate captain! Unhappy destiny that brought in the mail cutter two days ahead of schedule! Thrice unlucky popularity that found thee basking in the sunshine of woman's favor instead of on thy four-inch deck! The pilot signaled the mail; Skiddy put forth in his consular boat, intercepting the cutter in the pass, and receiving (on his head) his own especial Government bag.