Crossword-Solution: DOSSING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When you're dossing out in winter, in the darkness and the rain, Crouching, cramped, and cold and hungry 'neath a seat in The Domain, And a cloaked policeman stirs you with that mighty foot of his -- 'Phwat d'ye mane? Phwat's this? Who are ye? Come, move on -- git out av this!' Don't get mad; 'twere only foolish; there is nought that you can do, Save to mark his beat and time him -- find another hole or two; But it can't go on for ever -- 'I'll have money yet!' says you.

The agreement is that kipping, or dossing, or sleeping, is the hardest problem they have to face, harder even than that of food.

The idea of sleeping out might be nothing to bushmen--not even an idea; but “dossing out” in the city and “camping” in the bush are two very different things.

They are the Farewell of convicts about to sail for Botany Bay: [Illustration: _THE DARBY DAY._] Come, Bet, my pet, and Sal, my pal, a buss, and then farewell-- And Ned, the primest ruffling cove that ever nail’d a swell-- To share the swag, or chaff the gab, we’ll never meet again, The hulks is now my bowsing crib, the hold my dossing ken.

Then he began a convict song, a twopenny broadsheet sold at the street corners: Come Bet my pet, and Sal my pal--a buss and then farewell, And Ned, the primest ruffling cove--that ever nail'd a swell To share the swag, or chaff the gab--we'll never meet again, The hulk is now my bowsing crib--the hold my dossing ken.