Crossword-Solution: CADGER 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Two fences we clear'd, and the roadway we near'd, When three of our troop came to trouble; Like a bird on the wing, or a stone from a sling, Flew Cadger, first over the double.

And "Banker for choice" is the cry, and one voice Screams "Six to four once upon Banker;" "Banker wins," "Banker's beat," "Cadger wins," "A dead heat"-- Ah! there goes Fred's whalebone a flanker.

The uncared-for clothes, the aggressive, grizzled beard, and the furtive, evasive eye of the new-comer bespoke the professional cadger, the man who would undergo hours of humiliating tale-spinning and rebuff rather than adventure on half a day’s decent work.

Then there is that generous party, the cadger's delight, who is so free with his small change, but who never thinks of paying his debts.

This he learnt to play upon,—studying ‘Callcott’s Thorough Bass’ in the evening, and working at his trade of a miller during the day; occasionally also tramping about the country as a “cadger,” with an ass and a cart.