Crossword-Solution: THUMPER 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Tom Thumper (of Brasen Nose) cleared four thousand lb.; Bob Bullock (of Hexeter), who had lost all his proppaty gambling, had set himself up again; and Jack Deuceace, who had won it, had won a small istate besides by lucky specklations in the Share Markit.

Folks say, an' it is nowt bud truth, Thoo has been wi' me frae my youth, An' gien me monny a thumper; Bud noo thoo cooms wi' all thy weight, Fast fallin' frae a fearful height, A doonreet Milton plumper.

Instead of being bigoted to general principles, they trump up any lie for the occasion, and the more of a _thumper_ it is, the better they like it; the more unlooked-for it is, why, so much the more of a _God-send!_ They have no conscience about the matter; and if you find them out in any of their manoeuvres, are not ashamed of themselves, but angry with you.

Here Hickey reclines, a most blunt, pleasant creature, 125 And slander itself must allow him good nature: He cherish’d his friend, and he relish’d a bumper; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper.

The result was that he trotted right past Old Jed Thumper, the big gray Rabbit, who was sitting behind a little bush holding his breath.