Crossword-Solution: SPIELER 7 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

City swells who 'do the Royal' would have called the Shanty low, But 'twas better far and purer than some toney pubs I know; For the patrons of the Shanty had the principles of men, And the spieler, if he struck it, wasn't welcome there again.

Australian Bards and Bush Reviewers While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest curse, While you glorify the bully and take the spieler's part -- You're a clever southern writer, scarce inferior to Bret Harte.

And we'll continue in barbarism just as long as people as nearly intelligent as you continue to defend things as they are because they are.” “You're a fair spieler, child.

Over the tops of the tents, the lurid light of the distant red fire shot into the sky, accompanied by the cries of the peanut “butchers,” the popcorn boys, the lemonade venders,{sic} and the exhortations of the side-show “spieler,” whose flying banners bore the painted reproductions of his “freaks.” Here and there stood unhitched chariots, half filled trunks, trapeze tackle, paper hoops, stake pullers or other “properties” necessary to the show.

Len says their home is one of the kind where the rubberneck auto stops while the spieler tells the crowd who lives there, and how he made his money.