Crossword-Solution: BUCKO 5 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Joshua Higgins by name, a seaman by profession and pull, but a pot-wolloper by capacity, he was a loose-jointed, sniffling creature, heartless and selfish and cowardly, without a soul, in fear of his life of Dan Cullen, and a bully over the sailors, who knew that behind the mate was Captain Cullen, the law-giver and compeller, the driver and the destroyer, the incarnation of a dozen bucko mates.

Reenforcing the bucko mate was the tradition that the sailor was a dog, a different human species from the landsman, without laws and usages to protect him.

Did it seem to you as if I was a little too much of the bucko mate to the boy? Did I drive him too hard? Was I unreasonable?” The answer was prompt.

Sell it! You're off your bean, young fellow!” “I can sell anything, my bucko,” Larry returned evenly.

But Hunt seemed quite as determined to avoid any personal question relating to Miss Sherwood as she had been about personal questions relating to him; for his next remark was: “Young fellow, still keeping all those commandments you wrote for yourself?” “So far, my bucko.” “Keep on keeping 'em, and write yourself a few more, and you'll have a brand-new decalogue.