Crossword-Solution: COBBER 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then Ginger gits end-up an' makes a speech-- ('E'd 'ad a couple, but 'e wasn't shick.) "My cobber 'ere," 'e sez, "'as copped a peach! Of orl the barrer-load she is the pick! I 'opes 'e won't fergit 'is pals too quick As wus 'is frien's in olden days, becors, I'm trustin', later on," sez Ginger Mick, "To celebrate the chris'nin'."...'Oly wars! At last Doreen an' me we gits away, An' leaves 'em doin' nothin' to the scran.

Then Smith 'e promised if 'e came back 'ome Before 'is cobber o'er the flamin' foam, 'E'd see the ole folks 'ere, an' 'e agreed, If there was need, 'E'd stay an' do a bit around the farm So long as 'e 'ad one sound, dinkum arm.

When sun yonder and de shade cobber de groun; den she set dare, (pointing to the grass which grew luxuriantly near by) and talk to de ole man and lissen so still like a bird hiding, when I tell her all bout de ole folks, dat is buried dare, and how we all comed away from de States when de ole war driv us off, not General Jackson's war.

One man, just blown up by a shell, informed us that it was a ---- of a place--'no place to take a lady.' Another told of the mishap to his "cobber," who picked up a bomb and blew on it to make it light; "all at once it blew his ---- head off--Gorblime! you would have laughed!" For lurid and perfervid language commend me to the Australian Tommy.

Cobber, stop teasing me! With elections coming up, and the boys loaded with vote money back in town--with a deck of cheaters like that--you want to _eat_?" He picked the deck up fondly, while a faraway look came into his clouded eyes.