Crossword-Solution: TOWNCRIER 9 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Can't you stop a minute and give the Towncrier a chance? Or is it you're trying to outdo him?" The word "Towncrier" was meaningless to Georgina.

There's a big boat in this morning with a load of fish, and the Towncrier is telling everybody about it." So a Towncrier was a man! The next instant Georgina saw him.

But some dim picture of the kindly face puckered into smiles for her comforting, stayed on in her mind as an object seen through a fog, and thereafter she never saw the Towncrier go kling-klanging along the street without feeling a return of that same sense of safety which his song gave her that morning.

Although to older eyes the happenings of that morning were trivial, they were far-reaching in their importance to Georgina, for they gave her three memories--Jeremy's teeth, the Towncrier's bell, and her own name on the porringer--to make a deep impression on all her after-life.

Chapter III The Towncrier Has His Say The old Huntingdon house with its gray gables and stone chimneys, stood on the beach near the breakwater, just beyond the place where everything seemed to come to an end.