Crossword-Solution: SNIPPERS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

For Cap Corse is the good boy of Corsica, where men think sorrowfully of the wilder communes to the south, and raise their eyebrows at the very mention of Corte and Sartene--where, at all events, the women have for husbands, men--and not degenerate Pisan vine-snippers.

Most of them are indoor men, ink-slingers and calico snippers; haven't done a day's hard work in their lives, and don't know a pick from a mattock.

Also, after Waterloo, when the British nation was running wild trying to imagine some distinction that as yet had not been bestowed on Wellington, the London tailors in a moment of inspiration added the Iron Duke's name to the great roll of scissor-snippers! * * * * * ¶ Beginning with Herbort's son, four Bismarcks, in three generations, were social lepers.

This I did, putting the extracts in a school copy-book which our friend dubbed "Snippers,"--from an odd seamstress word which she had picked up by chance.

Many are discarded; the rest go into my "snippers." Below the first entry and to the right, I place the name of the book and its author, both heavily underscored; below the others, the word "Ibid" or "ditto," underscored.