Crossword-Solution: NOSER 5 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Noser and the Note The Head Rifler of an insolvent bank, learning that it was about to be visited by the official Noser into Things, placed his own personal note for a large amount among its resources, and, gaily touching his guitar, awaited the inspection.

When the Noser came to the note he asked, "What's this?" "That," said the Assistant Pocketer of Deposits, "is one of our liabilities." "A liability?" exclaimed the Noser.

That is what you mean, doubtless." "Therein you err," the Pocketer explained; "that note was written in the bank with our own pen, ink, and paper, and we have not paid a stationery bill for six months." "Ah, I see," the Noser said, thoughtfully; "it is a liability.

Indeed, my own errand proved so much, and a noser-out like Weir would be well employed in rooting up fragments of gossip over the bottle and memories of beery confidences at market ordinaries--sunken straws which showed the back-washes of opinion beneath the placid surface flow of our rural life.

CHESTERTON: And what sort of work do you do? WITNESS: I believe the work that I am at present engaged in is colloquially known as that of a “noser.” That is to say, I am engaged partly in collecting the rents, and partly in inquiring what is going on with his tenants—whether they are stealing the game, and improperly dispersing the stock.