Crossword-Solution: COCKEY 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

This looked bad, too, for old Cockey Wax--as he was known to everybody in the Hill districts but himself--wasn't given to thinking.

Brandon, my dear old Cockey died just after you and Edgar went away to Adelaide; but I have got another--such a beauty--and two such lovely parrots.

Now the Secretary was duly impressed with all the dignity of his official position, and he rarely failed to pull it on the ordinary individual--cockey would be about the proper term.

They tell me Cockey Hawes's sword Is seen upon a broker's board: And as for "Fighting Jim," In Bishopsgate, last Whitsuntide, His unresisting cheek I spied Beneath a Quaker brim! Quarrelsome Scott is in the church, For Ryder now your eye must search The marts of silk and lace-- Bird's drums are filled with figs, and mute, And I--I've got a substitute To Soldier in my place! MARY'S GHOST.

Cockey told me to remain there all night and he would see me safe, as he was engaged in the business ever since the war commenced, and had run off a great many men to the Rebel army; in fact he said that men from all parts of the country were sent to him to take across the lines, and that he always went into the Rebel lines with them.