Crossword-Solution: MERRYANDREWS 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain natural grace and decorum, hardly to be expected from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merryandrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals.

Next mornin’, I was down in my bake-hus, makin’ my batch ready fur oven, when, oothout a word o’ warnin’, up comes my two feet behind, down I goes head fust into my flour barrel, and them young----hem! the clergy be present--them youngsters dancin’ round me like forty mad merryandrews at a fair." A roar of laughter greeted the anecdote.