Crossword-Solution: STEERSMEN 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Some of the jokers used to call at the association rooms and have a good time chaffing the members and offering them the charity of taking them as steersmen for a trip, so that they could see what the forgotten river looked like.

And then, as the light began to grow, we were in the midst of the tumbling waters, the steersmen straining now right, now left, to keep the prows in the smooth reaches between rock and bar.

But quickly tell forth all this and boldly urge them to call to mind their task.” Thus he spake; and Peleus’ soul was stirred with gladness, and straightway he spake in the midst of all: “My friends, why do we thus cherish a bootless grief like this? For those two have perished by the fate they have met with; but among our host are steersmen yet, and many a one.

Wherefore let us not delay our attempt, but rouse yourselves to the work and cast away your griefs.” And him in reply Aeson’s son addressed with helpless words: “Son of Aeacus, where are these steersmen of thine? For those whom we once deemed to be men of skill, they even more than I are bowed with vexation of heart.

THE WISDOM OF ELD WE spend our lives in learning pilotage, And grow good steersmen when the vessel’s crank! Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering shank Sidled to gain the sunny bench of Age.