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

The friends were requested to declare which they liked best, a pint of good wine, or a tun of cheap rubbish; a diamond of twenty-two carats, or a flintstone weighing a hundred pounds; the ring of Hans Carvel, as told by Rabelais, or a modern narrative pitifully expectorated by a schoolboy.

The master or pilot of that carvel did advertise our General that upon one of those islands, called Mayo, there was great store of dried _cabritos_ (goats), which a few inhabitants there dwelling did yearly make ready for such of the king's ships as did there touch, being bound for his country of Brazil or elsewhere.

And although Goldsmith included _The Ladle_ and _Hans Carvel_ in his _Beauties of English Poesy_, 1767, he refrained wisely from copying the licence of his model.

Baree watched him light it; he noted with new interest the first purplish cloud of smoke that left Carvel's mouth.

Perhaps that same suspicion was impressed upon Baree, for when Carvel looked at him again he was on his feet, staggering a bit as he gained his equilibrium.