Crossword-Solution: GRIFF 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Still less in mien To my great sorrow became she slowly, And smalled till she was nought at all In his checkless griff; And it was as if She had never been.

During the last fortnight my companion was the old mountain man, already mentioned, named Griffeth or Griffin--I cannot tell which, as he was always called either "Hank" or "Griff." He was a crabbedly honest old fellow, and a very skilful hunter; but he was worn out with age and rheumatism, and his temper had failed even faster than his bodily strength.

Very soon afterward the boys came out, in a hurried manner--Griff had the lantern and Gilpin the box.

Griff however immediately began to hurry them away, pulling the box from them and saying, "Come, come, boys, we must not stay fooling here." "Wait a minute till I hide the tools again!" said Rodolphus, "and then we'll run." Rodolphus hid the tools behind the wood-pile, in the shed, where they had been before, and then the boys sallied forth into the street.

They are not always well treated; the "galloping griff" is amongst us, who enjoys "lambing" and "bucketing" even a half-donkey.