Crossword-Solution: WHITTLER 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Here she found an American cowboy busily engaged in whittling a stick as he sat upon an upturned cracker box and shot accurate streams of tobacco juice at a couple of industrious tumble bugs that had had the great impudence to roll their little ball of provender within the whittler's range.

And yet, after taking on Western adjustments, this languid pine-box whittler, cracker barrel hugger, shady corner lounger of the cotton fields and sumac hills of the South became famed as a bad man among men who had made a life-long study of the art of truculence.

Soon a companion would join this whittler, and then another, until the stranger would find himself fairly surrounded by these armed but silent observers.

Then they escorted their guests to where Allie, with his back against the wall of a building and his club beside him, was at work on some new creation of the whittler's art.

She did not understand what he meant by a _whittler of reeds_, but she rightly took what he said for a humble affirmative.