Crossword-Solution: BASHER 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

What they call a basher in England, isn’t it? eh, what? Sort of rough that lays for you with a pal and robs you, eh?” The Bo’sun rang for cigars and liqueurs, and then answered the question.

For the 'Copper Basher,' away at the Dardanelles, separated from every Salvation Army comrade, she prayed especially.

One of those who partook of it at the table, named Basher, died upon the spot; but Mahomet, finding it taste disagreeable, spat it out, saying, "This mutton tells me it is poisoned." The miracle-mongers improve this story, by making the shoulder of mutton speak to him; but if it did, it spoke too late, for he had already swallowed some of it; and of the effects of that morsel he complained in his last illness, of which he died three years after.

The name is preserved in that of Tell Basher still borne by the ruins, and a modern village on the banks of the Sajur.

BASHER SMITH, EX-HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF STEPNEY, WHO IS TO ACT AS REFEREE AT THE CORKERY-HACKETT FIGHT ON FRIDAY.] [Transcriber's Note: The captions were reversed.] * * * * * What most interfered with my peace of mind over _The Happy Highways_ (HEINEMANN) was, I think, its almost entire absence of highway, and the exceedingly unhappy nature of its confused and uncharted lanes.