Crossword-Solution: WISERS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And yet, to put the question to such parents, as Jervis and Elster--though with little expectation of receiving an audible answer--what other result could reasonably have been looked for in a boy, brought up, like Sprigg, to know no will but his own? This was the very thing to render it next to impossible for him to know what his own will really was and how he should use it, not knowing that of his elders and wisers.

The weather-wisers always glanced at the mountains; and the voices of experience uttered the following precept--that there would be rain once in every two days as long as the snow crowned the crests of the Blue Ridge.