Crossword-Solution: TRONK 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

You may build them like great castles, or they may be like a backveld _tronk_, only mud and corrugated iron, but there is always a key and a man who keeps it, and that man can be bested.

But he never did get a native to serve the full time, because the native preferred to break the law once more and go to 'tronk' instead.

The elder buck rejoiced in the sonorous title of "Minne-tronk-ske-wan," but divers convictions for insobriety under the Indian Liquor Act, and the facetious tongue of Yorke, had contorted this into the somewhat opprobrious nickname of "Many Drunks." His companion was known as "Sun Dog." They now proceeded to shake hands all around.

Immediately becoming sensible of his folly, after a momentary struggle he suffered himself to be led quietly away, but looked over his shoulder as he was marched off to the "tronk," and said hurriedly-- "Console Lizzie, Hans!" With a look of sympathy, Hans assured his friend that he would do so, without fail, and then, with Considine, proceeded to the house where poor Lizzie had already lit up the windows and got the gun in readiness.

His replies not being satisfactory, the animals were seized and put in the pound, whence they were afterwards reclaimed, while the thief escaped being put in the "tronk," or jail, by a sudden dart into the jungle of the Boschberg! My friend and I were soon on the road which led to the farm of his brother Jonathan.