Crossword-Solution: GARRETEER 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The writer was certainly not, as he pretends, one of Dundee's officers, but a stupid and ignorant Grub Street garreteer.

DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN ’TWERE sweet to have a comrade here, Who’d vow to love this garreteer, By city people’s snap and sneer Tried oft and hard! We’d rove a truant cock and hen To some snug solitary glen, And never be seen to haunt again This teeming yard.

Hervey imagined, was the authour of an attack upon him; but that it was afterwards discovered to be the work of a garreteer who wrote _The Fool_[91]: the pamphlet therefore against Sir Charles was not printed.[92] In February, 1767, there happened one of the most remarkable incidents of Johnson's life, which gratified his monarchical enthusiasm, and which he loved to relate with all its circumstances, when requested by his friends.

The wise politicians of the metropolis declared they were both masterly performances, and chuckled over the flimsy reveries of an ignorant garreteer, as the profound speculations of a veteran statesman, acquainted with all the secrets of the cabinet.

And if disturbance ever emanates from within, why, clearly the fault must be my own, and should serve as a reminder of how vastly uneasy my life would surely be in more civilised surroundings, where interruptions descend upon one from without, thick as smuts through the window of a London garret--save where the garreteer cares to do without air.