Crossword-Solution: PAISANO 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Frank Dobie Paisano A Preface With Some Revised Ideas IT HAS BEEN ten years since I wrote the prefatory "Declaration" to this now enlarged and altered book.

Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.

Was there ever a troubadour of old who struck upon as royal a castle in his wanderings? While he lay thus, meditating upon his blessings, little brown cottontails would shyly frolic through the yard; a covey of white-topknotted blue quail would run past, in single file, twenty yards away; a _paisano_ bird, out hunting for tarantulas, would hop upon the fence and salute him with sweeping flourishes of its long tail.

Even the wild birds know of this root; the queer paisano (? ground woodpecker) which eats snakes, when wounded by a _vibora de cascabel_, runs into woods, digs up and eats a root of the agave, just like the mongoose; but more than that, goes back, polishes off his enemy, and eats him.

Otro orbajosense es autor de aquel famoso _Tractado de las diversas suertes de la Gineta_, que [15] enseñé a usted ayer, y, en resumen, no doy un paso por el laberinto de la historia inédita sin tropezar con algún paisano ilustre.