Crossword-Solution: PARKY 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Hardly a man in the place, except Parky, the gambler, had been dressed in extravagance so imposing since the 4th of July as was early apparent in the street.

Parky thinks he's brainy, and a gentleman--that's all." "I can see you don't git another snack of grub in here, my friend," retorted Parky, adding a number of oaths.

The teamster inquired, "Why don't Jim git any more grub?" "Because I'm running this joint and he 'ain't got the cash," said Parky.

Old Jim was out of his bunk betimes, cooking a breakfast fit, he said, "to tempt a skeleton to feast." True to his scheme of ensnaring the gray old miner in an idleness with regard to his mine which should soon prove a fatal mistake, Parky, the gambler, had sent a load of the choicest provisions from the store to the cabin on the hill.

Not a few of the citizens of Borealis had succumbed to the gayer attractions of Parky's festival, but the men who had builded a Christmas-tree and loaded its branches with presents waited and waited for tiny Skeezucks in the dingy shop.