Crossword-Solution: BEPPE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Canio and Beppe wet their whistles at the tavern, but Tonio remains behind on the plea that he must curry the donkey.

But that tramp across Belgium, _dio boia_!" Here a clamour of voices interrupted Beppe, as each one of the travellers chimed in with a separate account of the horrors of that ghastly tramp across country in mid-winter.

When the influx of starving Italians necessitated it, a kind of soup-kitchen was inaugurated over which Beppe presided, and very busy he was kept too, manufacturing _minestras_ and _polenta_, a welcome innovation to me, I may mention, after a long régime of small and nauseous tarts, bread and jam, and cheese.

Beppe and Meneghino set out under the guidance of old M'Dermott, on tramp to Cardiff, whence they hoped to work their way out to the insurgent island.

Before a fortnight had elapsed, they also were back at the office, Beppe bearing the poor old Irishman on his shoulders in a quite crippled and exhausted condition.